[OSM-talk] New osmarender markings - what does dashed blackmean?

[Ian Sergeant]

Sometimes design by committee/community isn't as good a design by a
benevolent designer.  Both can work.  Not everything that everybody agrees
should be, or even can be, rendered.  Adding an extra feature to
osmarender, like scramble, without a proposal/vote probably doesn't make
any real difference in the long run, it can easily be replaced at a later
stage, and meanwhile there is someone on their hands and knees in Snowdonia
making use of an OSM rendered map.  It's all good.

However, 80n may be underestimating the importance of changes to osmarender
in influencing what is tagged and how.

Brent certainly has a point that a community will feel disenfranchised by
going through a long winded process to gain "consensus" and still not have
a feature rendered - to see others just making changes they want (and told
to build their own renderer/server if they don't like it!).

The documentation and the process has to reflect the reality to stop this
happening.

OSM is growing rapidly, but I for one still want people like 80n developing
new features, and people like Brent helping map Sydney and surrounds, and
both feeling involved in the process.

Ian.