[talk-au] Operator/informal tags for tracks

[Tom Brennan]

Hi Graeme

It's been a while, but I think the default is prominent ie informal=yes 
makes tracks less prominent, but no operator or informal tag is the same 
as operator=*

As OSM gets bigger, a lot of the newer tracks being added are faint pads 
(the official ones generally got mapped years ago). However, these 
appear as prominent as official Parks tracks on mapping services like 
Gaia, which are now in wide use by consumers. Which is why I think this 
would be good tagging for mappers to add/fix.

While you could argue it is mapping for the renderer, it is still just 
using the tags as intended, and also as per the Aus Mapping Guidelines.

cheers
Tom
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On 21/10/2024 8:59 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Tom!
> 
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 07:47, Tom Brennan <website at ozultimate.com> wrote:
> 
>> Gaia GPS (possibly amongst other downstream
>> applications) renders formal tracks - tagged with "operator=*" - more
>> prominently than those tagged as "informal=yes".
>>
> 
> How about the third option (which I would think is possibly the most
> common?) - no operator tag, but also not tagged as informal?
> 
> How do they appear?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Graeme
>