Luke Deen Taylor

Got it, thanks! There was a discussion in the OSM US slack over the weekend about the piers in NYC—NYC has dozens of piers that are developed with mixed use...

If there’s not a “natural” order for landcover vs piers (`natural=beach` should usually go below, but not in [all cases](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1213862022)) I wonder if it’s possible to do size-based sorting as...

> Only if you combine landcover, piers and everything in between into one layer - because only then you can apply a data based sorting. Looking in the list of...

Thank you for your thoughtful response! I believe making the *guess* that “features contained within a pier’s area are built atop of the pier” (as opposed to under, which seems...

Actually, to the question of > [is there] a consensus method among mappers to record the information that a certain feature is located on top of a pier rather than...

I take your point about making any heuristic used here one that would be intuitively understandable for mappers, and reproducible by other maps. I hadn’t considered those goals, and I...