[Talk-us-massachusetts] intro and intent

[hobbit at techno-fandom.org]

The nearest example is the one in my email to Tom --

    https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29868398

Noanet Woods, and Hale Reservation next to it.  These have boundary=
protected_area and leisure=nature_reserve, as do most others since that seems
to have been a firmer "spec" through time, and they are both hollow green
boundary lines on the website, in my OSMAnd, etc.  They show up as a dim
greenish-grey in the "humanitarian" render.

This one also has Tom's comment about *removing* natural=wood, which I have
been attempting to directly ask him about.  For some reason he didn't go
after Rocky Woods, a little to the south.  What would happen if he went after
ZeLonewolf's Rhode Island craziness??  [Yes, I know you'll both eventually
read this.]

I did a few Overpass queries this morning.  Eastern MA is a crazy mix of
natural=wood and landuse=forest, for most of the stuff that does show up green
in the default website render.  That's "carto", correct?  There doesn't seem
to be a Mapnik option at osm.org.  It's clear to me that the arguments around
leaving the interiors of parks default-background to not hide interior objects
are specious; features show up just fine inside the larger polygon.  Trails
are actually easier to see against the green, both at the website and on my
Androids.

I don't *want* to get into edit wars, that's why I'm bringing this up and
trying to gain full understanding of what-all is behind this.  As well as try
to coordinate with people.

I haven't learned to work with custom renders yet.  Advice welcome.  I'm just
starting to teach myself a little python, but I don't really do backend web
code of any complexity at this point.

_H*