On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If you have a certain fallback hierarchy that says "dear renderers of the >> world, if you encounter something tagged landuse=reserve and you don't know >> what to do, then treat it as leisure=park", then it makes more sense to >> create this hierarchy externally and feed it to the renderers, instead of >> putting bits and pieces of it all over the database! >> > > Yes...but I think it's a fair statement that centralisation of tag > semantics is not working very well, and many people bypass the process > altogether. > > So, yes, in a perfect world, we would simply define these fallbacks > centrally. But in the OSM world, it would be useful to do them case by case. > One benefit is no one needs to argue over them. You want to tag your > fallback as landuse=nature_reserve? Go ahead. > Then just start using your fallback tag. There's no need to tell the list about it. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > My strategy: > 1) I want to tag Y instead of X. > 2) I tag Y, fallback:X > 3) I get on with my life. Renderers will catch up whenever. > Great. Do it. No one's stopping you.
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