Christoph Eckert wrote: > I think we shouldn't vote on tags at all. Instead, we should monitor what > gets > used most by the mappers (see Tagwatch and the tool announced by > Schuyler Erle).
I don't know about Schuyler's tool, but the massive problem with using this "popularity-based" approach is that there are no added semantics. OK, so several thousand people are using amenity=foo. Are they all using it for the same thing? How can you tell? There's no necessary incompatibility between the idea of Map_Features being in some way canonical (in that people can fix bogus tags to conform to it) and the idea that people should be able to invent new tags. > IMO mappers "abuse" our two main renderers as a control mechanism if they > have > done it right. As Spaetz pointed out, neither mapnik nor osmarender will ever > paint the same features. It's always up to the renderer to filter/decide > which attributes it likes. And the lives of the renderer authors are made miserable if there are four different ways to tag the same feature, all of which are used in different areas of the map. Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
