[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> +1.  While I'd rather see these objects go away altogether, I think a
> tag of "name=Melbourne;Geelong;South-Central NSW Area;Central Victoria
> Area" on a closed way implies that this closed way represents an area
> called "Melbourne;Geelong;South-Central NSW Area;Central Victoria
> Area".
>
> I'm not sure boundary=* is appropriate either, as this is not a
> political or governmental or pseudo-governmental division, though
> maybe I'm just not aware of how broadly that tag is used.

Cool. Well, since these areas aren't AFAIK used for anything except
these kinds of maps: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nearmap ,
there's no particular need for them to have tags like name=* or
boundary=*. I've changed this one.

Steve