>to know that at least *something* will render. This seems like a confusing proposal to ensure that a tiny fraction of a percentage of the whitespace on OSM.org gets *something* rendered in it.
-1 from me. 2009/12/17 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
