[OSM-dev] Why is ford=yes not rendered in the default style?

[Dave F.]

Mateusz , Simon et al

I admit I'm a bit of an outsider on this (I prefer going out, collecting 
data to upload) but I'm a bit surprised by these 'it's not possible 
really' comments.

A few years ago it was announced that the carto schema (or whatever you 
want to call it) was to be 'overhauled to make it simple to edit so 
everybody could lend a hand'. It appears, from what's been said here, 
that it either didn't improve or it's gone back to square one.

In simple terms could you explain (or point to a relevant page) what the 
render database is & why it needs 'importing' and what hstore is .A 
quick google & it appears to be just k=v data storage, as is used in OSM 
database. Is that all it is?

Icons to POIs have been added to the carto in the past few updates (ie 
amenity=fountain), what's different about ford=yes? I find this mildly 
disappointing. It was announced a long while back that this tag was 
superseding highway=ford. I & others spent time changing them over only 
for it to actually reduce the quality of the 'standard' map.

Dave F.


On 26/11/2015 16:47, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:20:13 +0000
> "Dave F." <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> @Holger: Could you explain why it's "technically not possible"? It
>> seems strange just this one node can't be rendered.
> Currently only tags listed at
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/openstreetmap-carto.style
> may be used to generate Standard map layer.
>
> Changing this is not trivial - for start "There's nothing published
> about moving a style to hstore and making schema choices based on
> data." to quote
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1975
>


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