[OSM-talk] Green areas

[Etienne]

Tom
A huge landuse=field would work ok.

Elevation support is coming soon to Osmarender, so if you were to add
elevation=-1 you could ensure that other features, such as playing fields,
buildings, lakes, ponds, etc would get rendered on top.

Etienne


On 9/21/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
> Ahoy,
>
> I'm mapping Reading University's Whiteknights campus. The entire campus is
> fields, except where you have buildings and roads obviously. This is
> normally
> represented as lots of green space on the uni maps, but blank space in
> online
> maps.
>
> I'd personally like it to all look lovely and green - people then know
> it's a
> nice place to go for a stroll (access is permissive). I could just make a
> huge area to cover the whole campus and mark it as something like
> landuse=field (though this would get a bit silly in the countryside!) and
> then overlay specific areas for playing fields, buildings, etc. Or I could
> leave it all blank aside from playing fields and other more specific bits
> of
> greenery.
>
> Is there a convention here? I'm aware that I can just make my own custom
> map
> once Osmarender has produced the SVG, so I'm not too bothered if it stays
> blank.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom
>
>
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