[Tagging] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Marc Gemis]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:36 AM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Strange for the French because the whole map of  openstreetmap.fr  is
> osm.org itself.
>

take a look at
http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=15&lat=49.47299&lon=2.87899&layers=B0000000FFFFFFF
, that's the one I was thinking of.  I didn't know they were linking to
osm.org right now. Although they clearly mention under the picture, that
this is just one of the possible renderings. Just like the Germans do. Both
sites do not prominently show a large map on the home page, so people learn
from day one that OSM is not the map on osm.org

IMHO we should focus on the richness of the OSM map & app ecosystem, not
one rendering which lacks features compared to Google maps. We look like a
poor rip off that way. People should know from the moment they contribute
that they map for the cool webapp their wife is using, the website their
grandmother is visiting, the maps that are printed for humanitarian help
organisations, etc. And that they can easily check some of their mapped
features on a map, is just a nice bonus.

regards

m

regards

m
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