[Tagging] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Carto release v4.25.0

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Feb 7, 2020, 17:08 by pla16021 at gmail.com:

> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 15:25, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> tagging at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
>
>> Feb 7, 2020, 15:53 by >> pla16021 at gmail.com>> :
>>
>>> Then we give up on entirely sensible ideas because Carto insists on a "no
>>> synonyms" rule.  Which leads me to say, frequently, that OSM
>>> doesn't do joined-up thinking.
>>>
>> landcover is disliked by big part of this mailing list and iD devs and JOSM devs.
>>
>
> Landcover=* has 153,499 uses.   Or did you mean landcover=grass specifically?
> That's the second-most popular, with 19,755 uses despite not being rendered.
> For a tag that's not supported by editors or rendered, that's significant use.
>
landuse=grass alone has 3.5 million of uses

> If landcover were approved, iD and JOSM might decide to support it.  But
> probably not, because it doesn't render, and they wouldn't want to deal with
> people raising issues about iD suggesting tags that don't render.
>
iD and JOSM and Vespucci support many many many tags that are not rendered

lack of rendering is not the blocker

> Editors won't support it because it doesn't render.  Around
> and around we go.
>
lack of rendering in OSM Carto is not the blocker for adding presets.
JOSM, iD, Vespucci have many things in presets that are not rendered in
OSM Carto.

Note: please do not report new issues if there is already existing issue
for such request
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