On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Absolutely. When I'm planning a trip, I like to look at OSM maps > online. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a few "towns" > (obvious from the network of streets), but not a town name to be seen. > > Sure, I can zoom in to see the names, but when I do that, I've got to > zoom in so far that I can no longer see the spacial relationship between > those few towns (because I can see only one at a time). This is the > result of tagging rural Australian towns purely on the basis of population. > > The principle of not tagging for the renderer can be taken too far. The > maps must be useful. Don't obsess over a single renderer. You wouldn't use a circuit diagram to build a bookcase, and you wouldn't instruct your chef with music notation. Make a rendering style that meets your needs. Take a shot at creating rendering rules that fit your use case! :-)
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