[Talk-us] National Park Boundaries

Zeke Farwell ezekielf at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 21:50:51 GMT 2009


Nathan,
This is something that has bugged me about Mapnik and Osmarender as well.  I
think you should start a wiki page about this issue.

The thing about the several renderers we currently have is that they can't
be expected to take every possible mapped feature into account.  The map
would just get too cluttered.  I think for a general street map (the Mapnik
layer)  one color for all types of protected/conservation designated land is
fine.  Borders between different land designations should be shown as well.
 It seems to me that national/state parks are often surrounded by
national/state forest, but the opposite is not often true.  Probably parks
should be rendered above forests, or better yet render them with
transparency above forests so the borders of both can be seen.  Of course I
don't know who is in charge of the renderers so I can't really change the
way it's currently done.

I think eventually another layer should  be created that show the
distinctions between BLM, USFS, NPS State Parks, etc....   In preparation
for that we should definitely have a wiki page detailing how to tag these
public land types.

Zeke Farwell
Burlington, VT



On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Nathan Mixter <srmixter at hotmail.com> wrote:

> National parks and national forests are clearly are two different things.
> That is something that Google and others do not recognize. They just do one
> green for everything and they don't have BLM or open space land.
>
> I know in the past open space land has been a posilbility as being included
> in OSM. Maybe we can finally decide on a way to render these so they don't
> conflict with parks.
>
> Is it safe to assume that BLM, open space and national forests are on the
> same level of importantance? These are all things that belong in OSM, but we
> have to figure out on what level. Are there others that should be included
> in this grouping?
>
> Maybe these could all be rendered in a light green and then have all parks
> be in a darker green. These could be on level 1 by default and then all
> parks such as national, state, local and other parks could be on level 2 and
> be rendered above the national forest or other landuse tags.
>
> Also another issue is how to handle overlap if landuse= forest, etc is used
> and it conflicts with a park.Would there be two overlapping landuses here?
> Would these be level two going over the top of level 1 uses? Maybe in this
> case, deleting the landuse forest and going with the more specific park or
> national forest tag. Maybe it depends on case. Maybe a forest tag could be
> on top of a national park if there are other landuse tags also. Not sure how
> this would work.
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