[OSM-newbies] Both amenity=social_centre and shop=books don't render on OSM

[Richard Welty]

On 1/7/13 9:07 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Not everything will render on every display.  Some objects will be left out
> as a matter of choice; a specialty golf course rendering might not show
> libraries and playgrounds.  Some objects will be left out as a matter of
> luck; some renderings choose to only render those objects that don't
> collide / overlap with other objects.
>
> So, don't worry about what renders on which display.  Use available tags,
> as correctly as you can.  Objects will still be findable in search, etc.
>
i think this is a point worth expanding upon:

OSM consists of a Geo Database, and a suite of data consumers. the
mapnik rendering on openstreetmap.org is not the only consumer of the
data, there are various GPS apps that use it, various smartphone apps,
and alternative websites like opencyclemap and openfiremap, and especially
the suite of maps on itoworld

so break free of the constraint of thinking that OSM is just the map
rendered on www.openstreetmap.org, it's really much more than that.

richard