On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 16:18, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > OpenStreetMap is a project that produces open data. "open" implies > everybody being allowed to use the data in any way they see fit, including > rendering disused facilities in green with pink stripes. > Ah, Open Anarchic Map. Where anything could mean anything and could be rendered in any way whatsoever. It is perfectly permissible for a mapper to tag a motorway as a river and for a renderer to show it as as a farmyard. This is indeed what is implied by a strict interpretation of certain statements on the wiki. I feel that is a less than helpful way of producing a useful map, or even ensuring that the data is a good approximation to reality, but it's certainly something one could choose to do.
> There is nothing "sad" about that. > What is sad is that if renderers produce results that go against mappers' expectations, mappers will abuse tags to get the results they want and then the open data that you seem to feel is the most important part of the project becomes worthless. -- Paul
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