<div dir="ltr">André I think you missed a major thing about cartography (and topography).<div><br></div><div>As OSM contributors, we're not cartographers but topographers... we record topographic data.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Then cartographers use that data, make choices to have some objets of THEIR choice visible on the map THEY are making with the data we collected.</div><div>These choices are made with contraints: scale (no bus_stop at zoom 6), map use (trucks don't care about bicycle parkings).</div>
<div>These choices are not done at the data level, but at the stylesheet level.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're not happy of the cartographer's choices... become a cartographer yourself !</div><div><br></div><div>
OSM gives you that freedom as anybody can use the same data, and the same tool to do the map matching our choices by designing their own stylesheet.</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cartographer">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cartographer</a><br>
</div><div><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/topographer">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/topographer</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm on both sides... topographer as OSM contributor, and cartographer make maps with OSM data.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">As a cartographer, I will not use such a tag which does not give me control anymore on what appears or not on the map I'm making.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2014-08-26 12:16 GMT+02:00 Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:36 PM, André Pirard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Yes, this sentence is misunderstood, and by many repliers
apparently.<br>
It means that once Mapnik uses a (defined) rendering you cannot
change it (RENDER is ignored).<br>
The main idea behind RENDER is not coloring objects, and I agree it
shouldn't, but showing them.<br>
And the renderer can do that with any single color they like.<span><font color="#888888"><br><table><tbody><tr><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Basically, all renderers already decide what they print or not. Adding a flag saying "hey don't forget my feature" will not change this principle. Also with your tag, the same feature may or may not be displayed on the map, depending if you added your RENDER tag or not. Your proposal have no chance to be adopted for these reasons.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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