[talk-au] cities changed to towns

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:

> Absolutely.  When I'm planning a trip, I like to look at OSM maps
> online.  There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a few "towns"
> (obvious from the network of streets), but not a town name to be seen.
>
> Sure, I can zoom in to see the names, but when I do that, I've got to
> zoom in so far that I can no longer see the spacial relationship between
> those few towns (because I can see only one at a time).  This is the
> result of tagging rural Australian towns purely on the basis of population.
>
> The principle of not tagging for the renderer can be taken too far.  The
> maps must be useful.


Don't obsess over a single renderer.  You wouldn't use a circuit diagram to
build a bookcase, and you wouldn't instruct your chef with music notation.
Make a rendering style that meets your needs. Take a shot at creating
rendering rules that fit your use case!  :-)
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