[Tagging] Sector, section, and cemetery

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at gmail.com
Fri May 15 13:58:49 UTC 2015


On Fri, 15 May 2015 15:38:53 +0200
Kotya Karapetyan <kotya.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 4) Ref seems to be a good tagging for the cemetery section number,
> but it doesn't show up on the map, unlike the "name" (e.g.
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/345082198). Is ref still a
> preferred tag?

"it does not render" as sole argument is not a good argument. Mappers
should not care too much during mapping whatever tags are rendered (in
extreme it leads to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer ).

Note also that in that case changing ref to name would not result in
appearance of label in that map style.  



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