Lester Caine skrev: > > Again - the fact that people are giving time to enter data is precisely why > we > need to be producing a guide to how to do things that is consistent. If > people > are going to tidy up these 'couple of problems' then we don't want one person > deleting a node and another adding it back because they are looking at > different views of the same data :( > *ALSO* we also don't need people wasting time making the renderers play silly > tricks to make things look right. Lets just be consistent in how things are > handled. What ever the inconsistency! >
You need to look at it differently. From the view you are putting forth above, you seem to equalize the rendered output in the form of Mapnik and Osmarender maps to Openstreetmap. And I can see why, since those two items produce the currently most visible part of OSM. BUT remember, the DB is one thing, the rendering of data from the db is another thing altogether. Look at the db as a big sea of data, where it is your (the rendering engine) task to harvest the data that you want to render. Not to impose rules and limitations on what form the data in the DB is entered in. IMHO one of the reasons why OSM has gained such "notoriety" and following among neogeographers, established carthographers, and joe-public alike, is the fact that it is not a mapproducing framework bound by strict and defined ISO-like rules, but a framework that is more akin to social networking for the map-inflicted. If the two rendering engines used currently differ in the way they render said data, then its the rendering rules used in those engines that need to be put into sync. Its not done by imposing limitations or strict rules on what can/should be put into the DB. If one person observed a parking lot, but didn't have time to log the boundaries of the lot, and just placed a node with the corresponding tag, then later another person comes along and logs the boundary of the parking lot, and puts an area out of that data into the DB, he shouldn't delete the node another person made. Maybe that person is using the data from the DB to keep a POI record of parking lots. He might be the only one doing so, but thats still one of the forces of the OSM project - Log it, tag it, put it into the DB - even if you are the only person ever going to use that data. So IMHO it's up to the rendering engines to render the data smartly. It's not the rendering engines that decide what should be put into the DB. Dutch _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
