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As you know, carto-css will ask questions to the database and associate the answers to appropriate css through layers.

Is it possible to build a unique global layer with only one question to the database, subdivisions of the css doing the work ? or associate multiple layers to only one db question, the layer being one column of the db answer ?

I know I can find the answer by understanding the way carto css works and then by reading the documentation and learning to use it. But if some kind people may answer, I'ld get a free we

asked 11 May '18, 12:55

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The requests allow to organise the data in layers, and usually you'd like to render bridges over rivers, roads over forest,... See https://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/docs/guides/symbol-drawing-order/

Also, if you take everything at once from the database, Im not sure how performance would be affected.

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answered 12 May '18, 09:14

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thank you !

(12 May '18, 15:01) AntaC

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