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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 v1.55

ClassSubclassFeature CountExample Feature in OSM
forest wood 10,485,888 w617875392@1
forest forest 1,387 w200130475@4
glacier glacier 102,859 w151784962@1
grass meadow 4,102,340 w1306039585@1
grass grassland 1,823,753 r13661866@1
grass grass 21,115 w904170827@1
land land 894,878 809518_0
physical peak 971,911 n2247094720@1
physical hill 20,598 n11394579197@1
physical volcano 8,608 n9442828377@1
physical valley 2,533 n11165059160@1
reef reef 51,712 w546325585@1
sand sand 196,605 w656613773@1
sand beach 181,674 w50844768@6
sand dune 865 w1022660412@1
scrub scrub 4,536,348 w475651552@1
tree tree 25,849,126 n11390645336@1
tree tree_row 1,580,076 w1053668829@1
wetland wetland 3,814,850 w240450113@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