[OSM-talk] Suggestion: fallback tag

[Anthony]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>wrote:
>
>> If you have a certain fallback hierarchy that says "dear renderers of the
>> world, if you encounter something tagged landuse=reserve and you don't know
>> what to do, then treat it as leisure=park", then it makes more sense to
>> create this hierarchy externally and feed it to the renderers, instead of
>> putting bits and pieces of it all over the database!
>>
>
> Yes...but I think it's a fair statement that centralisation of tag
> semantics is not working very well, and many people bypass the process
> altogether.
>
> So, yes, in a perfect world, we would simply define these fallbacks
> centrally. But in the OSM world, it would be useful to do them case by case.
> One benefit is no one needs to argue over them. You want to tag your
> fallback as landuse=nature_reserve? Go ahead.
>

Then just start using your fallback tag.  There's no need to tell the list
about it.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> My strategy:
> 1) I want to tag Y instead of X.
> 2) I tag Y, fallback:X
> 3) I get on with my life. Renderers will catch up whenever.
>

Great.  Do it.  No one's stopping you.
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