Pieren Pieren skrev: >> You can create a standalone .osm file with all this in it if you/we >> need a test file. That's a much better idea than polluting the >> database with junk! > > > ok, forget my comment for developers who have a local environment anyway... > but I'm only thinking about the 99% of the OSM contributors who will never > install a renderer but would like to see the best practices described in the > wiki (when they are) in action. > And the database is already polluted by junk, exactly because of lake of > guidelines. > > With a separate environment, the problem is the maintenance. Here we are > sure that it would use the latest renderers as they are used by osm. > > When I say 'island', it could be in the middle of a desert as well and > tagued as 'test area' or whatever >
So you think that just because there are "some junk" in the database currently, it's a good idea to add some certified junk to the database ? Let me guess, if you are already speeding 15 mph over the speedlimit in your car, you would think it's a good idea to go even faster ? The idea of having a test rendering of an area, for users to see is valid, but no need to pollute the DB with it. Make an OSM XML compliant file, render it with Osmarender and Mapnik, and put the examples up as static bitmaps on the Wiki. Something similar is already done on the mapfeatures page, for the various tags. Having larger bitmaps on the wiki where several items are rendered as if they were a map, is easily achieved, without polluting the DB with made up data. An even better approach would be to set up a page containing links to the map, of different areas which does contain the various features, and a subsequent description of the features in question. No need to enter fake data into the db, and it will show the rendering of the tags on live actual valid data. Dutch _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
