A few months ago, Mapnik quit rendering closed ways with the tag military=barracks; as a result, many of the barracks I have mapped with only that tag are now "hidden". I am tempted to add landuse=military and thus making them visible on the default map again, but I would like not to map for the renderer; This is an example: it's a military area with restricted access, and, as far as I know, mainly used as a training and dormitory facility for troops. So my question is: how are military barracks correctly tagged? Thanks in advance! asked 26 May '15, 20:03  MarcoR edited 26 May '15, 23:20 |
One Answer:
My understanding was always that landuse=military is the high-level tag and that military=* is a refinement to the base tag. This fits the classic "mainkey=value, value=refinement" scheme, the wiki, and this comment in the mapnik bugtracker. So tag the area with landuse=millitary first, military=barracks second. If there's more than one purpose for the area (barracks and firing range for example), the military=* tag can be applied to smaller polygons inside the big landuse polygon. You might also want to tag individual building=bararcks inside the area. answered 27 May '15, 10:42  Vincent de P... ♦ |
The complete discussion on why the Mapnik team decided to stop rendering barracks. Please do not change the tagging because they decided to change the rendering rules.
@MarcoR - One thing that might help is if you can link to an example. I can imagine how people might tag such things slightly differently, so an example would help.