2008/11/22 Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whatever the syntax is you won't know why someone chose not to include > a name tag. The here discussed proposal is only about telling the > validator not to complain about the missing tag. It is up to the > mapper to be reasonable and not just include ignore tags because all > those maplint warnings are too annoying.
I don't really see why this is needed. Wouldn't it be a lot better to have a tag for when a street has no visible name sign? Then I and other mappers know what is going on and there is no risk of someone with local knowledge thing the street is already named. I remember when osmarender used to render all street names in the same font size on all streets even if the streets where too short for the name to fit. As a result the osmarender:renderName=no tag was often added to small streets to make the render look nicer. Then osmarender stopped adding names to short streets and could use a smaller font size on smaller streets. As a result many streets that could have had a name rendered did not and all the osmarender:renderName tags needed to be deleted or where pointless. Someone then had to go around and delete all the useless tags. I suspect the same mistake is being made here. The validators will get smarter and the tags will end up pointless or harmful. Tagging for validators should IMO be viewed the same as tagging for renderers. -- DavidD _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
