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

[Robert Scott]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 01:09, 80n wrote:
> > So the procedure is that if there is something you want to see rendered,
> > you just ignore the whole proposal/vote thing and get access to SVN and
> > go ahead and make any old change you want. I thought that must be the
> > procedure, but it wasn't documented anywhere, I'm glad to see it
> > officially sanctioned now ;)
>
> You are free to use any tags you like.  You are also free to grab a copy of
> Mapnik or Osmarender, modify the rules file to suit your needs and render
> whatever you like.

I think this is a prime example of why git would be far more suited to the osm 
developers (and, more importantly, potential developers) than svn is.

We have a lot of crazy people with their own crazy ideas - and this is good - 
it should be encouraged. It's just that people should be encouraged to create 
their own branches of say JOSM or osmarender with their crazy ideas 
implemented from which an 'official' branch (run by 80n in this case) can 
pull if the ideas mature.

And yes, I'm aware this is a rather unproductive 
this-is-what-you-should-do-sorry-I-dont-have-time-to-implement-it message. 
Sorry about that.


robert.