On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Steve Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
- we promote the bad habit "tagging for the renderer"<br></blockquote></div><div><br>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.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Only because it's impossible :). Seriously, there's a difference between trying (unsuccessfully) to prevent people from finding out what tags are supported by each renderer and actively promoting it.<br>
<br>Also, there are good uses to finding out what tags are supported by each renderer. It can indicate a place where the tags and/or tag definitions need to be improved. It can - but that doesn't mean it necessarily does. Sometimes the renderer is just wrong, or not as up to date.<br>
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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?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Actually, I think that's a good example of the harmfulness in tagging for a renderer. We shouldn't have redundant data in the database, at least when this is at all feasible.<br>
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