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Provide a different style treatment for overlapping wetland and forest (i.e., `natural=wetland` and `wetland=swamp`) #842

Open jeffreyameyer opened 3 months ago

jeffreyameyer commented 3 months ago

Style change requested

Apparently, a swamp is a forested wetland. I hadn't really thought about that before mapping some, although it makes perfect sense.

Unfortunately, our currently stylesheets force an either-or choice: either swamps are depicted as forests, or as wetlands.

See here: image

and here: image

Neither of these treatments seems ideal, as swamps play a much different role in human impact on the earth (why bother deforesting a swamp if you still have to drain the wetland?) as well as in human history (swamps as escape routes for enslaved people, who even set up entire towns in swamps, etc.).

For example, if you looked at modern satellite image, it might not catch your eye as to why exactly, these forests have been reduced to lumber and what might be nice riverside real estate hasn't been exploited:

Monosnap Robeson County - Google Maps 2024-07-07 12-28-05

The USGS National Map has a treatment that blends both iconography for wetlands and color for forests to indicate swamps:

Monosnap The National Map - Advanced Viewer 2024-07-07 12-29-11

Now... these areas are also tagged as wetland=swamp, which may be a needed tag in the vtiles, to differentiate from wetland=marsh or just plain old natural=wetland without wetland=* for coast areas like here:

Monosnap OpenHistoricalMap 2024-07-07 12-33-37

Small side comment: imo, the USGS marshland sprite:

Monosnap The National Map - Advanced Viewer 2024-07-07 12-34-29

is much more fun than ours:

Monosnap OpenHistoricalMap 2024-07-07 12-34-54
vknoppkewetzel commented 1 week ago

Alright, I have created a pattern that I think 🤞 will work.

Image

Next steps: 1) find the best color to work for this pattern in OHM style (currently just colored random green for testing purposes) 2) get into spritesheet and style itself and review in maputnik 3) review in staging style to confirm it looks good after 1 and 2