[Talk-ca] Hiding an object

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:15 PM, G. Michael Carter
<mikey at carterfamily.ca> wrote:
>  Is there a tag to stop mapnik and other rendering engines from rendering an
> object?
>
> My idea for adding campsite numbers hit a brick wall.  Seems the reverse
> engineering of Garmin doesn't support house numbers.   So I'm thinking of
> creating a dual purpose object:
>
> addr:city=Rock Point Provincial Park
> addr:housenumber=56
> addr:street=Campsite Roads
>
> name=Rock Point Campsite: 56    (still working on the name)
> tourism=camp_site     (reason is so it shows up on garmin devices as
> Lodging)
>
> (and possibly other tags still working this out.)
>
>
> On JOSM it renders all the campsite numbers as tent objects.  I think this
> might be very distracting on a map.  So I want to hide them from site.  But
> still be there for searching purposes.

Have you discussed this with a wider audience, perhaps #osm, or
tagging at .  There may be some experience in the international community
that will help.

Tourism=camp_site seems like it is intended for one per campground,
whether the capacity is one tent or 200.   So when you are talking
about individual tent locations, they might not have considered
marking it at all.

Have you looked at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Extend_camp_site