[OSM-talk-be] Regional walking networks

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 11 October 2011 19:58:39 Gerard Vanderveken wrote:

> If you don't want to use the name tag, because that  name might be
> rendered, and then put it in the note tag, you are also tagging for
> (against) the renderers.
> Exactly as the objection of Eimai is in the trac
> https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4017#comment:9
> 
> " Using the name tag would be an abuse. These routes simply don't have
>  names, the networks do. Sure we can invent some pretty names to be shown
>  in the relation lists, but then we'd need to special case every renderer
>  that wants to actually render these routes to discard names of just these
>  networks. That's not the better option. "
> 
> It is also tagging for the renderer, because one might not be pleased
> with the rendered result.

I'm not entirely sure whether you are being serious here...

So I'm not tagging something for the editor by entering wrong data which has 
the effect that said wrong data isn't rendered, which we didn't want anyway, 
because it was wrong data. And that's suddenly tagging for the renderer?


> [...]

Give me one reason why this has to involve the name tag and absolutely is 
impossible in any other way.


Look, we can go on and on with this, but the simple fact remains: it's not a 
name, don't tag it as such, even when that means you'll have to remember a 
six-digit number every now and then until Potlatch actually will be able to 
handle relations properly one day.


Greetings
Ben