[OSM-talk] Rendering idiosyncrasies

Ed Loach edloach at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 17:49:47 UTC 2015


Dave asked:
> > > Is anybody able to explain why the wood on the left renders
> > > above the school, yet the one to the right, under?

Martin replied:
> > because areas are sorted by size, bigger is rendered first.

Dave commented:
> I genuinely can't work out if that's said as a joke.

Take for example landcover-low-zoom layer

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/project.mml#L103

Ordered by layer (if present, else assume layer=0) then by way_area

Ed




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