[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

[Ian Sergeant]

Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote on 30/08/2011 11:14:32 AM:

> The same mechanism is used for Yahoo, Bing etc coverage. Yes, it's
> debatable whether meta-objects should be stored in the OSM database,
> but that debate would also extend to meta-tags (note=*, fixme=*)

When I encounter these "meta" ways/nodes with a name tag, I always change 
it to a note tag.  It is more aligned with a annotation than with a named 
object.

More generally I do agree there should be a better place to store this 
meta-layer info, or if not certainly a way to tag it so it can be ignored 
by those only interested in the map features.

Ian.
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