[OSM-talk] displayed width of roads

[Robin Paulson]

On 19/02/2008, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gaaaaaaarrggggggggggghhhhhhhhh!
>
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> Deliberately tagging things incorrectly is bad practice. There are so
> many renderers out there that if what you do works for more than one
> of them that's just coincidence. And when bad practices like this
> become entrenched it becomes a complete mess when the renderer
> eventually gets improved, as they always do.

a good point. didn't microsoft force this kind of practice in the 90s,
with a non-compliant web browser? we're still paying for that mess now

now if only there was a w3c equivalent for osm....