>The only real issue here is that "voted on" tags are taking a long time to get >implemented in Osmarender, and we should help the developers to reduce this.
But as we've seen (and as you're discussing elsewhere), this is only the real issue if you see Osmarender/Mapnik as the only outputs of mapping effort. As Patrick described above, "approved tags" are voted into the wiki, not the two renderers on osm.org. >Using a tag that will never be recognised by any software is (I think) at >least as bad as abusing a tag so it will be treated in some way by some >currently existing software. This is the chicken and egg situation that you're trying to impose, but it's not how OSM seems to work in real life. We don't add features to the database because they'll look nice on the osm.org homepage, instead the renderer is tweaked to match the state of the database. If you were really concerned that veterinaries weren't appearing on the osm.org page you could create openvetmap.org and host your own renderer and custom rules. It's that ability, not the tiles on osm.org, that make this project so worthwhile. The "real issue" as far as I'm concerned is that far too many people think that osm.org _is_ OpenStreetMap and tag/vote/map/moan accordingly. Cheers, Joseph 2010/1/10 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Joseph Reeves <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >You currently have this chicken-and-egg situation where you don't know if >> > it's worth using a tag because you don't know if it will ever be >> > implemented. >> >> But now you're just mapping for the renderer. > > Not by the usual interpretation of the phrase "tagging for the renderer", as > has been discussed several times recently. Using a tag that will never be > recognised by any software is (I think) at least as bad as abusing a tag so > it will be treated in some way by some currently existing software. There's > a balance between the two, and tagging in total ignorance of software > support is not a good strategy. > > Anyway, as this is a recurring debate with no consensus, I think I'll leave > it there. The only real issue here is that "voted on" tags are taking a long > time to get implemented in Osmarender, and we should help the developers to > reduce this. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
