I was once told by one of the style developers that the layer tag is not
used in the standard rendering on osm.org. Only the size of the area's
matter.

regards

m

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Ed Loach <edlo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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