[OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USA and elsewhere

[Tom Hughes]

In message <200804181936.16382.benlaenen at gmail.com>
          Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 18 April 2008, Tom Hughes wrote:
> > > If we can agree on the rendering rules and get both Mapnik and
> > > osmarender sorted out for the USA then people will be incentivised
> > > to tag appropriately. The moto 'render and they will come' probably
> > > applies here as elsewhere.
> >
> > Agreeing on the rules or colour schemes is not the problem.
> 
> Who decides what colours are used on the main maps? I.e. who actually
> decided that motorways should be blue, and trunks should be green, how
> railways are rendered etc.?

The people who are sufficiently interested to get involved with making
changes to the stylesheets.

> Say I'd like to see railways rendered differently in the t at h maps, where
> should I ask? Is there some "formal" process like for accepting new
> tags where general agreement is formed?

The question of what tags are used is orthogonal to how things are
rendered - not every rendering will show every object to start with.

Tom

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