[OSM-talk] Keep Mapnik relevant

[Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)]

Chris Hill wrote:
> I notice that abandoned railways are now being rendered on Mapnik.

I've been tagging local disused pubs with disused=yes and hoping that 
the renderer will catch up with what was agreed in the wiki for some 
time now :) Unfortunately there's an increasing number of boarded-up 
pubs round here :(

So I raised

   http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1085
   http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1079

and someone else raises

   http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1268

so go figure. There's clearly a bit of disagreement about whether 
disused and abandoned stuff should be shown. IMO they should not, not on 
the Mapnik rendering at least. The prettiest, first-impression, 
public-facing view should only contain active services and amenities, 
ditto rail lines, roads, canals etc. because the average user will only 
care about what's relevant and useful right now.

Tongue-in-cheek suggestion: new tag, visible=yes/no or relevant=yes/no.

-- 
Andrew Chadwick