[OSM-talk] Cross-renderer tag support, now with OSMdoc!

[Anthony]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/12/20 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> "OpenStreetMap does not have "deprecated features", as anybody is
> allowed
> >> and encouraged to use any tag they think is useful.
> >
> > Geez, with rules like that maybe it would be better to start tagging for
> the
> > renderers.
>
> In a way that probably happens to an extent, the renderers stop
> rendering a tag(s) so people start tagging differently as a result so
> their data continues to render.
>

Yeah.  At least the renderers have some sort of authoritative structure
(presumably none of them say that "anybody is allowed and encouraged to add
any code they think is useful", though I suppose a mapnik stylesheet could
be hosted on a wiki, so maybe I shouldn't presume too much).
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