[Talk-us] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

[Zeke Farwell]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 20-6-2010 0:53, Val Kartchner wrote:
>
> > So, apparently we have to work it out ourselves before they'll even
> > consider making the change.
>
> The problem is that once we add a tag to the stylesheet, and it starts
> rendering, it is very hard to subsequently remove it for a better
> tagging scheme.
>
> Especially now that there's this whole discussion on airodrome tagging,
> the quick request for aerodrome=rc_airstrip struck me as "let's try to
> get this one tiny aspect of that rendering". Implementing this would
> mean nothing for the abundance of airports now rendering in mapnik, even
> at lower zooms.
>
> I would love to be able to render some at higher zooms only, based on
> hints such as a specific tag for airport size and/or national/regional
> importance. A good and non-arbitrary tagging scheme would be the way to go.
>
> So, now you know why I made those remarks on that ticket. Discuss,
> document, request rendering. Usually in that order.
>

Yes, and we are currently in the Discussion phase.  When I have some time
I'll try to get a proposal up on the wiki with the goal of moving things
towards the Documentation phase.  I've never made a proposal before so I
need to figure that out.  I also want to read over all the ideas thrown out
in this thread first.  If anyone else feels motivated and beats me to it
that's fine too.

As mentioned before there already is a general importance tag proposal.
 Moving that one along would certainly enable airports to be rendered at
different zoom levels. An airport specific tagging scheme may be desirable
too though.  It may be useful for a future renderer to show more detailed
information about airports.

Zeke
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20100620/3551efd0/attachment.html>