[OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good.  I don't think storing these in OSM, with the
non-overlapping tags, is harmful.  While I'd love to see them in a
separate database or at least a separate layer, the fact of the matter
is that separate database and/or separate layer hasn't yet really been
implemented.