On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 16:12 +0200, André Pirard wrote: > Hi, > > It's a well known fact that many people complain to tag in vain > because what they tag doesn't show on the map (e.g. mini-golf vs > tennis pitch), because they're told to open a rendering ticket which > replies that only official tags are supported, and because they open a > vote for an official tag and nobody signs. > As a result they are accused of "tagging for the renderer" instead of > 'being forced to tag for the renderer". > > The solution is simple however. A RENDER tag that, typically, would > assign a color to an area. > I'll let the rendering specialists define what else it can do. > ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ RENDER only requests by default rendering. > As soon as rendering is defined for an element, it is used instead and > RENDER is normally ignored.
This is just as bad as HTML 3.2's FONT tags and similar presentational junk. It's an excuse to add more garbage to the database, and I don't see the value it adds. The rendering does need to improve and be aware of new tags, but this doesn't help that one bit. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
