[OSM-talk] Path rendering in the cycleway

[Robin Paulson]

2008/8/31 spaetz <osm at sspaeth.de>:
> OSM is a kingdom divided in pricipalities. And each of this principality is governed by a "Benevolent Dictator" with very different views on how and what OSM is and how/what maps should look like. You will never see the same features rendered on Mapnik as on osmarender. And that is OK, even if it makes the maps look different. Whether it is the right governance structure s a different question, but changing that would require employing all of us :-)
>

i think we could bring a semblance of sanity and consistency to the
tag proposal and voting process quite simply

i'm of the opinion that osm as a whole would benefit from some
discussion as to what it is we're aiming to do, and the generation of
some use cases

from that point it becomes not too complicated to come up with
*guiding* (i.e., not hugely proscriptive) frameworks to help with the
various areas of osm, including but not limited to tagging, editors,
API, etc.

has anything like this been done already? i mean beyond what stevec
and others did back when it all started?