On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> In a way that probably happens to an extent, the renderers stop > rendering a tag(s) so people start tagging differently as a result so > their data continues to render. > But whatever they do, they never "tag for the renderer"... I think it's time to get a little smarter about all this. Yes, anyone can create and use any tag. It doesn't mean that's always a good thing. In fact, these days, most of the time a novel tag is used, it's probably a mistake, misguided etc etc. We should be moving to stabilise the tag set and deprecating variations from it. Once upon a time, when someone tagged an area as "wood=decidious"*, it made sense that the editor/renderer accepted and ignored it. These days, we have enough information to pick that up as an error. Using erroneous or deprecated tags helps *no one*. Steve Or decideous, decidous, deciduos, deciferous(!): http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/wood/
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