[OSM-talk] no rendering of amenity=veterinary

[Ulf Lamping]

Am 11.01.2010 00:54, schrieb Steve Bennett:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com
> <mailto:iknowjoseph at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      >You currently have this chicken-and-egg situation where you don't
>     know if it's worth using a tag because you don't know if it will
>     ever be implemented.
>
>     But now you're just mapping for the renderer.
>
>
> Not by the usual interpretation of the phrase "tagging for the
> renderer", as has been discussed several times recently. Using a tag
> that will never be recognised by any software is (I think) at least as
> bad as abusing a tag so it will be treated in some way by some currently
> existing software. There's a balance between the two, and tagging in
> total ignorance of software support is not a good strategy.

Just let me explain why these have different consequences.

The first case is "just" garbage in the database - not nice but doesn't 
really hurt. But how do you know that it will "never" get rendered? 
There are currently more and more specialised maps appearing, so chances 
are that reasonable tags (and amenity=veterinary is reasonable IMHO) 
will get rendered one day.

I'm not talking about "amenity=this is a nice hotel I've visited in june 
or so" - which will probably never get rendered ;-)


However, "tagging for the renderer" will make existing data less 
reliable: "is this really a beach or someone tagged their personal 
playground to appear in yellow?". Bad!


Regards, ULFL