[Tagging] RENDER

[Richard Welty]

On 8/20/14 8:33 AM, André Pirard wrote:
>
> 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 !!! 
this proposal completely breaks the model of decoupling the factual
mapping database from the data consumers and their choices. there
are more data consumers than just the front page on www.openstreetmap.org
and they may be making very different rendering choices based on their
requirements.

this render tag notion, if it were to be adapted, would be ignored by a
lot of the
data consumers with good reason.

you need to get away from this notion that mappers should be able to force
data consumers to pay attention to their interests; there will always be
lots of
things in the database that don't get rendered in one place or another.

richard

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