[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - landuse=orchard

[John Smith]

2009/9/29 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>:
> That would mean that Mapnik needs to be checking a secondary field to
> determine what to display. If the renderer doesn't do that, you will end up
> with a map that is poorer in the end. In your case, that would mean
> increasing the size of the table produced by osm2pgsql by one extra column.
> Overall, you are increasing complexity with little or no benefits.
> I am not sure it makes sense in the end since were are getting exactly the
> same of information if you are using the tag directly in landuse.

Why is this a problem for tagging exactly?

If mapnik wants to pre-process it differently that's fine, but it
should have no bearing on the tagging used.