[Tagging] RFD tag:shop=camera?

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Fri Jun 5 19:21:25 UTC 2015


Agreed.  If you look at all of what I said, I was arguing that concerns 
about how many types of things could be rendered should not prevent 
detailed tagging.  It is always possible to go from a complex data set 
to a simplified rendering; going from a simple data set to a complex 
rendering is frequently not possible.

On 06/05/2015 01:31 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:40 AM, John Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com 
> <mailto:john at jfeldredge.com>> wrote:
>
>     There is an obvious limit to the number of types of icons that can
>     be rendered on any one map before it becomes incomprehensible. 
>
>
> Rendering can choose to use the same symbol for two tags.
> One tag however can't become two symbols.
>
> While the rendering has a huge impact on tagging, OSM is foremost a 
> data set: one that can be rendered various ways.
> It's important to get good expressive data.
>

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