[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering of paths + place=locality in general

[Pieren]

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Nathan Mixter

The Map Features is edited manually, means that we have to accept the
fact that the list of all key/values supported by all OSM applications
will never be complet and up-to-date in this wiki page.
Map Features is a great page and very usefull for beginners and
others. And with the templates, it is also translated in many
languages making the list of key/values consistent over many
countries.

But I think personnally that the page is already too big.
It should concentrate on the most popular key/values and not list all
e.g. sports or shops of the world. Such keys could be mentionned with
their most popular values and the remaining in their own dedicated key
page (I could say the same for "barrier" & "traffic_calming").

Also, recent additions create confusion : e.g. "smothness" and
"tracktype"; or highway=footway documented as "Equivalent to
highway=path + foot=designated". What means "equivalent" ? Do we have
now different tags for the same thing ? This creates unnecessary
complications and reluctance for beginners.
Pieren