[OSM-newbies] tertiary dirt roads?

[Russ Phillips]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 20:21 -0700, James Ewen wrote:

> > Do not tag for the renderer.
> 
> You know something, I'm getting really sick of that statement. Nothing
> personally against you, just the statement.
> 
> I can not tag elements in the OSM database without tagging in a way
> that someone might construe as being "tagging for the renderer".
> 
> If I use a highway tag, I am tagging for the renderer, since just
> about every renderer out there will render the highway.

When people say "Don't tag for the renderer" what they generally mean is
"don't tag it incorrectly just to make it show a particular way in the
renderer"

As an example, mapnik renders "landuse=industrial" in a pinkish colour.
It would be wrong to tag a flower bed as "landuse=industrial" just so
that mapnik would render it pink.

Russ