On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > I'm trying to create a woodland type map which will require lots of > different polygons e.g. Museum building outline, country house building > outline, garden, conifer trees, broadleaf trees etc
Generally for buildings, building=something will get rendered. For types of trees, invent your own. > > I have created closed ways for some of these features but don't know what > properties will create a polygon. E.g. I created a school playground polygon > and called it Amenity: school. This created a nice polygon but I have tried > other Presets on JOSM but most refer to point features e.g. Museum. So how > do I know which Preset Properties are for polygons and which are for points? As Andy said, renderers often determine whether it is a polygon first by whether it is closed, secondly by the type of tagging. For example, amenity=school gets rendered when given a closed way. > > Note the closed ways which I could not label appeared only in MapLint. > > I intend to use a local version of osmarenderer so don't really care about > formatting as long as a closed way gets through to the OSM data file as a > polygon. > > Cheers > > > > PS > > I posted this same comment on the Wiki Talk: Josm. I'm not sure if that is > the appropriate forum for a question - speaking of forum I can't figure out > the attraction of a mailing list over a forum. Seems designed to make life > harder for all involved. > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
