[Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Richard Welty]

On 5/16/15 1:19 PM, Kotya Karapetyan wrote:
> Though I strongly disagree to the idea of "mapping for the renderer",
> I agree that there is a huge problem: a lot of data available in OSM
> database is effectively lost because the renderers do not show it.
on the other hand, demanding that the rendering on www.openstreetmap.org
be all things to all people is actually pretty unreasonable. the current
architecture which separates data from style is well considered and in line
with modern best practices; i haven't yet seen an argument that would
persuade me otherwise.

what we could use are more people doing projects like opencyclemap and
openfiremap and the like to bring out the data they care about in formats
that they like.

my presentation at SOTM US will include examples of using leaflet, jquery
and overpass to create mashups of OHM and OSM data, and i'll be making
my javascript available on the ohm github repository under a 3 clause BSD
license for anyone who wants to play.

there's nothing particularly radical or new in what i'm doing, but i hope it
serves as a reminder that there's more than just the rendering on
www.openstreetmap.org and if you want to show off the data you've
entered, there are ways to do it.

richard

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