Steve Bennett wrote: > Hi all, > As we all know, you don't "tag for the renderer". However, you want > your map data to render nicely now, and you want correct map data in > the long term. > > Suggestion: introduce a "fallback" tag. > > For example, around my city there are little "reserves" - patches of > grass reserved by the government for future development such as > freeways or train lines. They often get tagged "leisure=park", but say > I want to start tagging them "landuse=reserve" instead. Suddenly, > instead of being green on mapnik, it will be white again - > unrecognised tag. Don't tag for the future.
If it's use *now *is a park, tag it as a park. When & if (and that's a *big *if when talking about civil engineering projects) it changes use re-tag it then & not before. Also, I think this should be on the Tagging forum. Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
