[Tagging] bridge=humpback ?

SomeoneElse lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
Wed Aug 13 09:41:48 UTC 2014


On 13/08/2014 05:54, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
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>
> Some people consider freeform values in bridge tag as a problem and 
> think that bridge tag should have only yes/no values and specific
> type of bridge should be stored in a separate tag.

People are entitled to their opinions, but I'd argue that freeform 
tagging is one of the main things that's made OSM the success that it is.


> It is notable as these people maintain Default Style - see
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/440

Unfortunately recent changes to the default style have made it less 
useful in the big world outside a couple of a couple of well-mapped 
European cities, and less useful if you want a map to use to navigate 
with rather than create something pretty to hang on the wall (1).

Just as we shouldn't "tag incorrectly for the renderer", we shouldn't 
"avoid mapping detail because if we do so it won't get rendered".

Even without these changes the default style is already less relevant 
than it was because of the many other map styles available and many 
different ways of viewing OSM data (the take-up of OSMAnd being one 
example, CraigsLists's (unfortunately out of date!) OSM-based maps are 
another).

Cheers,

Andy



(1) 
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/747#issuecomment-50188728




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