[OSM-newbies] Tag list

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

H.S.Rai wrote
>Sent: 19 December 2007 1:05 AM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-newbies] Tag list
>
>http://openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=30.8504&lon=75.8895&zoom=14 have
>note.
>
># there is no guarantee that a tag listed here will be rendered by any
>particular renderer or by the renderers used by the OSM main map page.
># There also may be many tags that will render on the OSM main map
>page that are not listed here. This list is not updated with all the
>tags implemented by the renderers.
>
>From where one will get complete list of tags which are rendered by
>different renderer.
>
>BTW, how many renderers are available. I now two used by Mapnik and
>Osmarender
>

There is not simple way of seeing the definitive list of tags used by each
of the two renders on the www.openstreetmap.org website. You can look at the
code for each which you will find in svn however it's worth pointing out
that the list of what is rendered changes frequently, especially for the
osmarender layer. In both cases, what is rendered is only a small subset of
what people might be tagging with. The renders on www are only meant to be a
showcase. The whole idea of OSM is that you can take the whole contents of
the database (ie via the planet file) and create whatever rendering you like
using the tags you want. A good example of this would be the cycling
orientated map at http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/

Cheers

Andy (blackadder)