On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 11:38 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >.. > > Using a tag that is not on the wiki will probably mean it is not > > rendered.
> rendered where? Many if not even most of the tags that are described > in the wiki are actually not rendered on the OSM-Carto style. > While true Martin, its a simplification. A tag mentioned in the wiki or other "authoritative source" is seen by many people and therefore more likely to be used in many entries than some tag that I personally think is great but one one else realises I'm using. And anyone making a render decision is likely to consider the number of times a tag is used (among other things). So, the wiki and similar focuses efforts on a smaller set of tags. Have a think about the Tower of Babel. David > > . thus I may have wasted my effort. > > > > > -1, there are lots of other uses for the data besides the one > stylesheet that is the first on the list on OSM's homepage. If the tag > is interesting for a general purpose map, chances are not bad it'll > sooner or later get implemented also in the Carto-OSM stylesheet. If > people were only using tags that get rendered right now in this style > sheet, there wouldn't be any tagging progress at all (meaning also > that a lot of features could not be described at all), and if we would > have been working like this 10 years ago, there wouldn't be any map at > all now. > > > > > Cheers, > > Martin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
