[Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 23:03 +0100, pmailkeey . wrote:
> I therefore want to air the view that 'mapping for the renderer' is no
> longer 'wrong' by actually adding a good set of basic tags for areas,
> lines and points ("simple English" as opposed to technical English of
> 'nodes' and 'ways') so that when a mapper invents something new, they
> can add tags for colour, opacity, line colour, line width, line
> opacity - for areas and similar attributes for lines and points
> (colour, opacity, size etc.) and obviously tags for name and
> description etc. What do people think to this ?
> 
Read up on the history of HTML 3.2 and why all the presentational
garbage that was put into it was deprecated in HTML 4.0 and is nowhere
to be seen in XHTML 1.1 and HTML 5.

What you are proposing is the mapping equivalent of the <font> tag in
HTML 3.2 when we have had something far better than that for years. No
thanks.


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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>