On 16 May 2015 at 00:40, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/16/2015 12:03 AM, pmailkeey . wrote: > > I don't know whether this has been discussed or even mooted before... > > Often. > > > Tagging for the renderer is natural. Mappers, especially newbies will be > > disappointed their pet new feature they've just added to the db does not > > appear on the map. > > Thing is, there is no "THE" map.
THE map is here: http://www.openstreetmap.org - supposedly. However, everyone should look here: http://openstreetmap.us/iD/master/#background=Bing&map=2.00/-1.8/53.8 as this is a more complete map. > There's tons of maps in various colour > schemes and designs, as well as tons of non-map uses of our data, and > this is one of the super strenghts of OSM - we record that there's a > motorway, and the map maker can define how they want the motorway drawn. > > Your suggestion would kill that flexibility, and everyone would have to > adhere to that one colour scheme set up by the mapper or editor. It > would totally run against everything we hold dear. > Not at all. I'm suggesting additional tags for basic graphic properties - and for http://www.openstreetmap.org to make use of these ADDITIONAL basic tags. All other maps and rendering would be totally unaffected. > > What you are talking about is essentially "MS Paint with multi-user > capability". That's certainly an interesting project in itself but not > something that we should remotely consider in OSM. > > Why shouldn't a user who adds a new feature to the db be allowed to 'suggest' how it appears on 'THE' map ? Once the feature is designed to be 'properly' rendered, the basic graphic tags can be removed. I'm suggesting that these additional basic tags are used on a temporary basis but would not oppose their permanent use if others agreed. -- Mike. @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> - For all your info on Millom and South Copeland via *the area's premier website - * *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property & pets* T&Cs <https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail>
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