On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@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;">
2009/12/20 Anthony <<a href="mailto:osm@inbox.org">osm@inbox.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steve Bennett <<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> "OpenStreetMap does not have "deprecated features", as anybody is allowed<br>
>> and encouraged to use any tag they think is useful.<br>
><br>
> Geez, with rules like that maybe it would be better to start tagging for the<br>
> renderers.<br>
<br>
</div></div>In a way that probably happens to an extent, the renderers stop<br>
rendering a tag(s) so people start tagging differently as a result so<br>
their data continues to render.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Yeah. At least the renderers have some sort of authoritative structure (presumably none of them say that "anybody is allowed and encouraged to add any code they think is useful", though I suppose a mapnik stylesheet could be hosted on a wiki, so maybe I shouldn't presume too much).<br>