[OSM-talk] How do I go about doing this?

[Steve Chilton]

You will also score good brownie points if you include a URL (or two) pointing to an instance of the particular feature you are referring too.

Cheers
STEVE

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Weait
Sent: 08 November 2010 13:21
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How do I go about doing this?

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Donald Campbell II
<donaciano2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a few tag adjustments I'd like to try and make in some different
> tools.
> I don't think this is really a newbie question so I'm asking here.
> For example there's a tag I've been using that encodes information useful in
> navigation but isn't being used in any renderers.  (I'm not mentioning the
> tag right now because I want to know the process involved not debate my tag)
> At what point is a tag more or less recognized?
> Since wiki tag proposals seem to be ignored or unadopted, in what way can I
> ensure I'm using the correct tag?
> What is the process for getting a tag accepted into mapnik?

You might be using "your tag" perfectly and still it might never get
rendered in a specific map rendering layer.  No single map layer can
satisfy every potential viewer.  You can use Mapnik yourself, and
render a map to suit your requirements.

Still, without guarantees, the OSM Mapnik style maintainers are
volunteers.  If your request has any hope of being accepted by the
maintainers, you can make things much easier on them, by doing the
work yourself.  Create an icon, create and test a working ruleset,
create a diff so that they can apply it to their style, and send all
of that as a trac item, "feature request" against component "mapnik"
in the OpenStreetMap trac system.  That could make the difference
between them thinking, "um, possible, but I don't have time for that
right now" and thinking, "well with all of the answers provided, I can
do that quickly."

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