[OSM-talk] Mapnik: rendering forest or wood

[Bone Killian]

I disagree.  I think there is value in the ability to visually
distinguish managed forests from natural woods. 

Consider this area:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.9567&lon=-77.1919&zoom=13&layers=B0FT

Here, the dark green (natural=wood) is a forest preserve[1] in the
middle of an actively managed forest (landuse=forest).  Logging is
permitted in the light green area, but not in the dark green area.    

It seems to me that the best course of action would be to use another,
unique shade of green for recreation_ground.

Bone

[1] http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/FORESTRY/oldgrowth/thehook.aspx

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 06:51 +0100, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> I think the mapnik rendering of forests could be improved.  ATM,
> landuse=forest is not distinguishable from recreation_ground.  Even
> if forest are often used as places for recreation in Germany,
> rendering both areas the same way is not optimal.
> 
> For outside activities you want where wood or forest is located.
> 
> Thus I'd like to propose to render both landuse=forest and
> natural=wood the same way in a darkish green.  That's also how
> osmarender deals with these areas.
> 
> 
> 
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