[Tagging] A second step towards bringing the wiki and tool support closer together

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 17:00:41 GMT 2009


2009/12/9 Jonathan Bennett <openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk>:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>> Question: Do you think support in those two renderers is sufficient
>> basis to document a tag in the wiki?
> Mere use of the tag is sufficient basis to document in the wiki. What
> the renderers support is secondary to that. If no-one ever
> used/documented a tag until a renderer supported it, OSM wouldn't
> develop anywhere near as quickly as it has...

Problem is that tag haos which have come with this attitude is rather
colossal. I am not saying that it is bad. It will just create lot of
work to sync all different tags for same things.

Cheers,
Peter.




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