[Tilesathome] steam over landuse
Chris-Hein Lunkhusen
chris66nrw at gmx.de
Wed Feb 4 11:37:50 GMT 2009
D Tucny schrieb:
> <http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.912&lon=7.737&zoom=16>
> > But the stream is tagged as layer -1, so is underground as landuse
> > will assume 0 (but render behind other layer 0 objects).
>
> Yes, streams are often tagged as -1 so that they are rendered
> under streets. In Wiki there is also the recommendation to
> tag waterways as -1.
>
> So landuse should never cover other objects.
> Landuse should be assumed as layer -100. ;-)
>
>
> I thought there was a discussion about this at some point in the past
> and that the outcome was that the feeling was that landuse should be
> drawn first, though allowing layers within the landuse 'layer' then
> other features drawn over whatever the outcome of the landuse layer
> was... which, would be effectively the same as making landuse
> effectively exist at -100 to -90...
> Can't remember the details, but will try and find the mails...
It makes no sense that a "virtual" object like landuse
covers any "real" object like streams or whatever, no matter
what the layer is.
And as you can check, Mapnik renders the above example correct.
Chris
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