[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

[Steve Bennett]

I'm not sure if this is a recent change (or I've just noticed it), but
it seems that tags that don't contain anything recognisable to mapnik
other than a name are getting rendered: http://osm.org/go/uG42g@6EB--

That "Melbourne;Geelong..." label is on a way that defines the edge of
the Nearmap imagery, and shouldn't be rendered.

If the new policy is that anything in the database is liable to be
rendered by the default mapnik stylesheet, then perhaps we need a way
to indicate objects that shouldn't be rendered (perhaps osm_meta=yes
?)

[Of course this change(?) has some benefits: the nearby Winneke
Treatment Plant which I just mapped (http://osm.org/go/uG42SFtBP--)
gets kind of rendered, even though there's no specific support for
man_made=waterworks.]

Steve