[Tagging] RENDER

[André Pirard]

On 2014-08-15 16:12, 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.
I summarize the answers below.
An example for using RENDER is this:
*
landuse=recreation_ground* a sort of holiday/family event site inside
which you have
a quite visible   *leisure=pitch  sport=tennis*
and two perfectly invisible polygon features (official tags or so),
hence to which we add RENDER:
*leisure=miniature_golf*   render=coral
*landuse=boat_storage  sport=kayak*   render=darkblue

As usual, every other reply I received disparaged this suggestion
without proposing the slightest alternative, for example only force
drawing the outline without color (that would do if a name can be inside).

Hence, the general consensus is either to tag for the renderer or not to
tag such touristic POIs at all.
It's strange to have to campaign for tagging !!!

Except Marc who suggests:
On 2014-08-15 18:58, Marc Gemis wrote :
> maybe it should be even easier for people to play with overpass turbo
> and css. then you get the same effect
Interesting, Marc.
Could you please elaborate, explain how to use overpass and css and show
the resulting tagging for example for the above case?

André.



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