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Daylight Earth Table

Overview: Building, Infrastructure, Land, Landuse, Placename, POI, Road, Transit, Water

Theme: land

Natural features on land. Features typically found in a landcover layer.

Metadata keys

key name description of values
landuse value of landuse tag in source
length_m Length of feature in meters (if a line)
natural_tag value of natural tag in source
surface_area_sq_m Area of feature in square meters (if a polygon)
surface value of surface tag in source
wikidata Wikidata ID (if present)

OSM tags included (filter)

tag name required? values included
building required must be NULL
landcover optional included if not NULL
landuse optional forest, meadow, grass
highway required must be NULL
natural optional included if not NULL
surface optional included if not NULL

Feature counts per class and subclass in Daylight v1.45

ClassSubclassFeature CountExample Feature in OSM
forest wood 10,027,791 w791475732@1
forest forest 1,277 w376058006@2
glacier glacier 100,358 w1102227755@1
grass meadow 3,959,874 w1219253392@1
grass grassland 1,706,227 w672534239@1
grass grass 19,311 w1004606999@2
land land 876,068 99916_0
physical peak 929,793 n10029727242@1
physical hill 20,410 n11405085838@1
physical volcano 8,176 n8229440615@1
physical valley 2,521 w1026720389@1
reef reef 50,777 w718229572@1
sand sand 189,663 w1257599504@1
sand beach 175,025 w396851511@6
sand dune 914 w938727665@1
scrub scrub 4,347,227 w241778967@3
tree tree 24,152,658 n1751293613@1
tree tree_row 1,490,555 w988512264@1
wetland wetland 3,595,084 w428524143@1

Zoom level recommendations for feature rendering

when feature
minzoom		 feature
maxzoom
class=glacier 4 16
class in (forest, sand) 5 16
class in (reef, wetland) 7 16
class in (grass, scrub) 9 16
class=tree 15 16
class in (forest, glacier, sand) 6 16
class in (reef, wetland) 9 16

Other notes