[Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Kotya Karapetyan]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
wrote:

>  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.
>
>
The idea of mixing style and data was not implied! They are separate and
should remain such. I was only complaining about inability to see the data,
in whichever usably form. Currently there are two ways I can see some data:
switch on editing (bad, because I can screw data up) or use the query tool
(bad, because I cannot see the presence of a feature, I need to click the
map to find it).

Also I didn't mean that www.osm.org should be the place to show all data.
It can well be a separate site.

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.
>

Good idea. Though, for the sake of usability, it would be great to have a
single site capable of showing everything. The problem is of course that
OSM doesn't restrict tagging in any way, meaning that it's barely possible
to create layers for different tags.


>
> 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.
>
>
I will be very much interested in having a look.

Cheers,
Kotya
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