On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Donald Campbell II <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a few tag adjustments I'd like to try and make in some different > tools. > I don't think this is really a newbie question so I'm asking here. > For example there's a tag I've been using that encodes information useful in > navigation but isn't being used in any renderers. (I'm not mentioning the > tag right now because I want to know the process involved not debate my tag) > At what point is a tag more or less recognized? > Since wiki tag proposals seem to be ignored or unadopted, in what way can I > ensure I'm using the correct tag? > What is the process for getting a tag accepted into mapnik?
You might be using "your tag" perfectly and still it might never get rendered in a specific map rendering layer. No single map layer can satisfy every potential viewer. You can use Mapnik yourself, and render a map to suit your requirements. Still, without guarantees, the OSM Mapnik style maintainers are volunteers. If your request has any hope of being accepted by the maintainers, you can make things much easier on them, by doing the work yourself. Create an icon, create and test a working ruleset, create a diff so that they can apply it to their style, and send all of that as a trac item, "feature request" against component "mapnik" in the OpenStreetMap trac system. That could make the difference between them thinking, "um, possible, but I don't have time for that right now" and thinking, "well with all of the answers provided, I can do that quickly." _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
