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Landcover

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Describes the primary use of the land by humans or the physical material at the surface of the earth. It’s the landcover together with landuse in OpenStreetMap. Besides the data from OpenStreetMap, Natural Earth,OpenAddresses and some data collected by ThinkGeo are other data sources. The polygons are sorted by the area of the geometry to make sure we don't show small polygons at some zoom levels.

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class

A category of landcover, so that you can easily track a specific object.

Value (class) Description.
aeroway Areas for aerodrome,apron,heliport,helipad and runway.
agriculture Aboriginal Areas, such as farmland,orchard,plant_nursery, or vineyard.
cemetery Areas for cemeteries or graveyards.
crop Plant or animal product growing.
hospital hospital, nursing_home, social_facility, nursing_home, doctors grounds.
School Areas for college,kindergarten,school and university.
grass Grassland, meadow, or the grass areas with grasses(Poaceae) and other herbaceous(non-woody) plants growing.
glacier Glaciers or permanent ice/snow there.
park National parks, nature reserves, city parks, village greens, summer_camp, playgrounds etc.
rock Bare_rock, scree,shingle, quarry, bare_rock or gravel.
scrub Scrub, heath or bushes.
sand Sand, beach or loam.
tundra Land with ground below always frozen and no trees growing there.
urban A human settlement with high population density.
wood Areas for forest and trees.
wetland Moor, mud or wetland.

type

Indicates a specific classification for the landcover, for example, “grassland”,“fell” for the class “grass”.

vectortile/schema/v2/landcover.txt · Last modified: 2020/03/16 08:44 by tgwikiupdate