This not tagging for renderer is quite misleading. I would always agree that mapping incorrectly for any reason is wrong. But if the mapping is accurate I do not mind that it is for renderer. After all these discussions do not show any globally acknowledged way of modelling reality and renderers/routers seem to be a natural point of unification (There are not many features rendered by the main Mapnik style that are not widely mapped...).
LM_1 2012/8/26 Ilari Kajaste <ilari.kaja...@iki.fi>: > On 26 August 2012 10:42, Markus Lindholm <markus.lindh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We're not supposed to map for the renderer nor the router. Exactly for >> whom are we to map? > > For nothing, and no one. Which also means: for anything, everything and all. > > The OSM approach - as I understand it - is to collect data about > reality in best way possible, and let the use of that data come > afterwards. Let the renderers, routers and whatnot determine how they > can best utilize the data. > > The reasoning behind that is this: If we map focusing on one single > case, or even multiple cases, we set ourselves up for bad data that > just happens to produce the right result in the case we're looking at. > This easily leads to the data becoming unusable for anything else. If > we instead map for no particular case, just trying to model reality in > best way possible, we might not see any end result immediately, but > the data is left intact, in good quality for any emergent uses we're > not even thinking about yet. > > I think it's a very, very good approach. Uses come and go, but the > data is what matters, in the end. It's the data itself, the modelling > of reality, we need to focus on. > > -- > - Ilari Kajaste - > > E-Mail: ilari.kaja...@iki.fi > WWW: http://iki.fi/ilari.kajaste > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
