On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> - we promote the bad habit "tagging for the renderer" > > Tagging this argument further, we should do everything possible to prevent > people finding out what tags are supported by each renderer. That doesn't > make sense. > > Information about tag support is a *good* thing, not a bad one. I now > realise that Mapnik doesn't recognise *any* sport=* tags, but that's not > going to stop me using them. But it will make me be careful to always use it > with a tag that it *does* support as well. See how this is beneficial? >
The risk is that people will not use the best tag because it's not rendered but will use a similar one which is rendered. Others might just ignore the tags that are not supported by Mapnik. Your wish to identify immediately in the Map Features what is rendered and what is not shows me that it is a sensible criterion where it shouldnt. Imho, if we need some improvements in the Map Features, it is first in the ambiguous descriptions. Pieren _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
