On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:54:09AM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Il giorno 01 ott 2016, alle ore 16:23, Paul Norman <[email protected]> ha > > scritto: > > > > OpenStreetMap Carto is given special treatment on osm.org by being the > > default layer, so the wiki should reflect that. > > > Just because there's already special treatment does not mean we have to carve > it in stone. The icons which osm carto currently displays, belong into an osm > carto map key, not in the wiki on feature definition pages or map features > compilation pages. Let's not mix up the cartographic representation and > interpretation and choices of a specific style with the definition of the > tags. It was always postulated that osm is about data, and that the osm carto > style is just a demo implementation of one possible interpretation of this > data.
But it is the style that people use to check their edits. I just see this as "giving people what they want". The current Map Feature page shows that there are people who thought this was a good idea, otherwise they wouldn't have gone through the considerable effort of adding those images to the wiki. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.jochentopf.com/ +49-351-31778688 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
