On Wednesday 06 June 2018, Andy Townsend wrote: > > Anyway what i am absolutely certain of is that rendering different > > tags identically in a map has never encouraged mappers to > > consistently differentiate between them. :-) > > The "long tail" of different shop tags begs to differ with that! If > what you said was true there there would be an awful lot more > "shop=yes" (see http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/shop#values > , and compare with > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/office#values ).
I don't think it is the map that encourages mappers to differentiate shops, it is the desire to correctly document reality. The 'dot on the map' does not really make a difference here. Overall shops are a good example for where the free form tagging system of OSM works very well. To make this clear since it might not have been from my remarks - i consider the influence of rendering on tagging decisions to be a small one relative to many other influences. But there are cases where other influences are small where map rendering can make a significant difference - to the better or to the worse. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
