On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:09 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 Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</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;">
If you have a certain fallback hierarchy that says "dear renderers of the world, if you encounter something tagged landuse=reserve and you don't know what to do, then treat it as leisure=park", then it makes more sense to create this hierarchy externally and feed it to the renderers, instead of putting bits and pieces of it all over the database!<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Yes...but I think it's a fair statement that centralisation of tag semantics is not working very well, and many people bypass the process altogether.<br><br>So, yes, in a perfect world, we would simply define these fallbacks centrally. But in the OSM world, it would be useful to do them case by case. One benefit is no one needs to argue over them. You want to tag your fallback as landuse=nature_reserve? Go ahead. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Then just start using your fallback tag. There's no need to tell the list about it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Steve Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@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;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>My strategy:<br>1) I want to tag Y instead of X.<br>2) I tag Y, fallback:X<br>
3) I get on with my life. Renderers will catch up whenever.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Great. Do it. No one's stopping you.<br></div></div></div></div>