I have discovered a bunch of rivers and streams with layer=-1 in my local area. In my opinion this is simply wrong, so I am removing the layer tag from the river and checking for objects which cross the river (to tag them with layer=1.
Best wishes, Andrew On 02/04/2014, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: > The present situation is that rivers implicitly render below highways in > all common renderings. That's not necessarily bad. With some formality to > the layering arrangement, it sure would save a lot of tagging hassle and > maintenance. > > The new cloud tag for example, is clearly to be rendered after everything > but the celestial tags. > > Ahem. > April 1st aside: the number of important implicit assumptions is relatively > small. Rivers under, power lines over, closed ways under except if they're > tagged building, etc. Currently this type of layering is implicit in > various bits rendering software, but > it could be formalized at the tag definition level to help meet certain > mapper expectations. > > --- > In the case of the river/highway layer warning: if the warning had never > existed, chances are the various workaround schemes would never have come > up. Rivers would run under roadways, and tagging would be needed only in > the rare case of a ford or an arroyo with no culvert. > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
