Am 07.01.2011 00:10, schrieb Steve Bennett:
If by "do their best" you mean, the people involved work hard and in good faith, yes. If you mean the result is optimal, then clearly not. There are lots of bugs in mapnik.
Where are the trac tickets to improve the situation?
And just look at the table I produced to see the wide discrepancy in tag support across different editors and renderers: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Stevage/tagsupport
I'm not argueing that there certainly are bugs, but renderers have - by definition of their intention - discrepancies in what they want to display. I really like your table (BTW: A more frequent update would help), but taking it as an argument for "missing standards" is just strange.
The other way round might make more sense. If all renderers, the wiki, OSMDoc and alike lists that feature, it seems to be in "common use". Obviously, this doesn't reflect in any way the semantics of that tag.
This is just like when you write software to implement an open-source standard. No one is forcing you to implement the entire standard. But most developers see the benefit in operating in this standard way, to improve interoperability.
We are not writing software here, your comparison is therefore wrong for several reasons. Even if it would be right, why are there so many competing standards out there?
Please also remember: Standards need quite a while to evolve, e.g. first GPX was "born" in 2002! Compared to that time and complexity, our tags are already quite mature - without any "standard body"!
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