[OSM-talk] Suggestion: fallback tag

[Dave F.]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
>   As we all know, you don't "tag for the renderer". However, you want 
> your map data to render nicely now, and you want correct map data in 
> the long term.
>
> Suggestion: introduce a "fallback" tag.
>
> For example, around my city there are little "reserves" - patches of 
> grass reserved by the government for future development such as 
> freeways or train lines. They often get tagged "leisure=park", but say 
> I want to start tagging them "landuse=reserve" instead. Suddenly, 
> instead of being green on mapnik, it will be white again - 
> unrecognised tag.
Don't tag for the future.

If it's use *now *is a park, tag it as a park.

When & if (and that's a *big *if when talking about civil engineering 
projects) it changes use re-tag it then & not before.

Also, I think this should be on the Tagging forum.

Cheers
Dave F.