[Tagging] "State of repair" tag

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Brian Wolford <worldwidewolford at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> > In no case do we want the feature to be hidden from rendering: it's
> still a mappable object.  The goal is quite the opposite: to highlight the
> drinking water sources in need of repair.
>
> If you are going to highlight things then it seems like you would be
> creating a specific rendering already.
> And if you are creating a specific rendering then you can have the
> disused/abandoned objects render not hidden, but highlighted.
>
No, it's more like a note.
If there's no repair specific tag I'd just drop the same data into an
unstructured note:
*"drain clogged with sand"*. The main mapnik type map should just show the
feature as normal.

Only a specialist map would show the repair status.

But I prefer structured data to unstructured, and prefer to collect data
supporting any future rendering choices, rather
than make those rendering choices up front.  Thus the enquiry about best to
collect repair status for an object.

                -Bryce


PS: It is ugly, but you can see exactly this at http://wetap.org/
where red means poor repair and pink means, um, I think they messed up
pink.  Maybe pink means it has a picture.
<http://wetap.org/>
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