[Tagging] How to put a name tag on an area with more than one type?

[Anders Torger]

It was just an example. Peak is "close enough" for now, and you can 
argue that it works for both mountain and individual peaks. That would 
be okay, but the problem with that is that there is no information for 
the renderer which peaks that should be shown when zoomed out. Some 
renderers just filter out the highest peak (I think opentopomap does 
that), which does work in say 80% of the cases, but sometimes the 
highest peak has a specific name, and the whole mountain is named 
something else.

It's frustrating to see that many OSM folks seems to be "surprised" 
about these things, like it would be something super unique maybe only 
existing in Sweden. It's not. It's just basic cartography of natural 
features all over the world. I was for a while surprised that there's 
not more urgency to fix these type of issues, but once I've learnt about 
how the community works, I'm no longer as surprised, but it's still 
frustrating.

I'm not going to make a wiki entry. I'm just a mapping contributor 
within the current framework, not an OSM developer, and I don't intend 
to become one. I've done my due diligence of OSM and concluded that its 
more about politics than about solving technical problems, and those 
things leads to me burning out.

What I can do is contribute to the map. And I do. I'm a quite advanced 
mapper, including writing my own custom software tools to be able to map 
faster (not automated mapping, but aided manual mapping). When I stumble 
across things that I don't know how to map, I ask questions at OSM Help, 
and if the answer is not satisfactory there, I turn to here. I'm now 
actively involved in the small Swedish OSM community and we discuss how 
to best map things within the existing OSM feature set, and I try to 
come up with reference methods. I've lately been involved in following 
up vandalism. But my engagement ends there, I don't have the capacity to 
do more.

If the only way to cater mapper's needs is for those individual mappers 
to navigate and penetrate OSM politics to what it has grown to today, I 
think we're stuck. I takes a special type of effort and dedication which 
few people posses, and unfortunately I'm not one of them. You will 
probably hear some rumbling frustration from my mapping efforts from 
time to time, but that's it.

/Anders

On 2020-12-13 01:14, stevea wrote:
> Anders, I didn't see this until after I sent my reply.
> 
> I believe this list here is interested in what you call "missing
> features," as a list.  I look at them as challenges of ours or
> frustrations of yours which can either be explained or solved.  You
> might not like the explanations.
> 
> For example, if you were to expound upon differences between
> "mountain" (as Anders, or Sweden understands it) and natural=peak (as
> OSM understands it), we're listening.  You might be prompted to "make
> a proposal for mountain" or "write a wiki for how your first
> mountain=whatever or whatever=mountain tag you recently started to
> enter (because it is well thought-out, defined, follows sensible rules
> about 'what it is' and 'how it is tagged'...)" is now extant, and so
> on.
> 
> To solve such frustrations doesn't necessarily include this or that
> about mountaineering.  This is called reducing the map consumer's
> perspective, as you simply "tag well and accurately using a syntax
> expressing what you mean."  If there is no such tagging, we might
> support it (as new tagging and/or a new proposal) and maybe someday it
> will be rendered.  This is (partly) how our map data have grown, it is
> how our map data continue to grow.
> 
> SteveA
> 
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