[Tagging] RENDER

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 16:12 +0200, André Pirard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's a well known fact that many people complain to tag in vain
> because what they tag doesn't show on the map (e.g. mini-golf vs
> tennis pitch), because they're told to open a rendering ticket which
> replies that only official tags are supported, and because they open a
> vote for an official tag and nobody signs.
> As a result they are accused of "tagging for the renderer" instead of
> 'being forced to tag for the renderer".
> 
> The solution is simple however.  A RENDER tag that, typically, would
> assign a color to an area.
> I'll let the rendering specialists define what else it can do.
> ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ RENDER only requests by default rendering.
> As soon as rendering is defined for an element, it is used instead and
> RENDER is normally ignored.

This is just as bad as HTML 3.2's FONT tags and similar presentational
junk. It's an excuse to add more garbage to the database, and I don't
see the value it adds.

The rendering does need to improve and be aware of new tags, but this
doesn't help that one bit.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>