On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Shalabh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. And what if even the 'fallback tag' is not rendered by the renderer? > That's the current situation. So, the worst case scenario, with this tag, is...what we have now. Every other case is an improvement. > 2. Some things may have just no fallback e.g. Mountain passes are not > rendered by most renderers. What would be the fallback tag in such a case. > Not sure which tag you're referring to. If the tag is just a bit of decoration, maybe you don't need a fallback. But in lots of other cases, it would be good to be able to fall back to at least a landuse=industrial, or building=yes or something. > > In my opinion, this will only confuse the mappers more when they tag a POI. > Nah. Only the smart mappers would even think of using it. > A few days down the line, we would have many more questions on what should > be the fallback of what and why? > Nah. It doesn't matter enough. I would see it mostly as a personal thing for the mapper, to know that at least *something* will render. I would think a better idea is to have atleast one renderer and the main OSM > map to render a superset of all tags. > > There are hundreds of thousands of distinct key=value pairs. And even if that was one renderer could do it...how does that help? Say I want Mapnik to look nice, but you propose that I use Osmarender instead because it supports every single tag.... This isn't a solution at all. Steve
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