On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ulf Lamping <[email protected]> wrote: > Partly because of differences in the intention of the renderers. It > makes a difference if you want to have a nice map or if you want to aid > in editing.
Yeah, of course. The hypothetical "SkiOSM" renderer would support different tags from "CampusOSM" renderer. But there are lots of differences that can't really be accounted for that way. Why does JOSM support "proposed=" when the wiki explicitly prohibits it, for example? :) And lots of other little examples. Why on earth does Osmarender support sport=curling (when nothing else does), but not basketball, baseball... Why do all the editors/wiki propose a huge range of sports, but the renderers essentially ignore it all? (I had thought sport=chess would be a joke, but I've already used it three times just in my suburb!) > But also because different people are writing the rules. I think most of > the people working on mapnik, osmarender, Kosmos or JOSM won't often > work also with other renderers at the same time. Yeah, and I think there is an unfortunate problem where the wiki/mappers don't want to tell the renderers what to do, and the renderers don't want to tell the mappers how to map. There's a lot of second guessing. > There is also other stuff, e.g. the widely used piste map things that > are documented at: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Piste_Maps. Jeez, there's something seriously wrong in this whole "proposed/approved" process. People put a lot of work into describing a feature, but because it's not clear what action it's trying to make happen, the thing just dies. ("Yes, I vote to make it possible to...uh...continue to do what I already do.") It might be better to think in terms of "core" tags and "specialist" tags or something. If something is core, we expect all decent renderers to render it. If it's specialist, we document it, but it doesn't appear on map features, or something. In all my suddenly non-existent free time, I intend to make a pass over a lot of these redlinks, adding descriptive entries, at least. ("This tag appears to be used in germany, it's supported by ... etc.") Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
