[OSM-talk] tagging segments - Was Re: Problems with Osmarender

[TM]

Etienne wrote:
> The point is to discourage tagging of segments in favour of tagging
> ways.  By making this the default behaviour of Osmarender it should
> help to reduce the amount of new segment tagging. 
>
> According to the stats the number of segments with tags has doubled in
> the last 3 months (from about 500,000 to over 1 million).  This is not
> what should be happening.  Since ways were introduced in April the
> number of tagged segments should not have grown very much at all.
>
> So hopefully, by making it easier to get a result by tagging ways,
> this will slow down this undesirable trend.
>
Fair enough. Ways _are_ better than segments. Does this mean that
segment tags will not (no longer) override way tags? (May have to change
a few ways, then...)

    /   TM