On 16/05/2015 10:39 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
Regardless of people's views on this, the reality is that one of the
main reasons people get involved with OSM is because they want to see
the things they tag show up on a map somewhere at some time.
Tagging for the renderer isn't going to go away anytime soon because
IMO almost everyone wants to see "their stuff" on a map.
Absolutely.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:58 PM, pmailkeey . <pmailk...@googlemail.com
<mailto:pmailk...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
On 16 May 2015 at 00:40, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org
<mailto:frede...@remote.org>> wrote:
Hi,
On 05/16/2015 12:03 AM, pmailkeey . wrote:
> Tagging for the renderer is natural. Mappers, especially
newbies will be
> disappointed their pet new feature they've just added to the
db does not
> appear on the map.
Not at all. I'm suggesting additional tags for basic graphic
properties - and for http://www.openstreetmap.org to make use of
these ADDITIONAL basic tags. All other maps and rendering would be
totally unaffected.
What you are talking about is essentially "MS Paint with
multi-user
capability". That's certainly an interesting project in itself
but not
something that we should remotely consider in OSM.
Why shouldn't a user who adds a new feature to the db be allowed
to 'suggest' how it appears on 'THE' map ? Once the feature is
designed to be 'properly' rendered, the basic graphic tags can be
removed.
I'm suggesting that these additional basic tags are used on a
temporary basis but would not oppose their permanent use if others
agreed.
If you 'add a new feature to the db' then you should describe it on a
wiki page .. on that page you can suggest the rendering .. some of the
wiki pages have it ...
e.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_tap#Rendering
This does not mean it will be rendered. Nor does it mean it will be
rendered in the way suggested. In fact many people using the tag
man_made=water_tap use the additional key amenity=drinking_water ... and
it is the drinking_water that gets rendered.
So if you want something rendered straight away .. pick an existing tag
that is already rendered. If you want to add a new tag .. then do so,
document it on the wiki ... and hope that lots of people use it and lots
of them get onto the db .. then finally the renders might recognise it
and it appears on the map. That is the way it works now .. unless you
start rendering your own maps.
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