[OSM-talk] MEP - pipelines

[Bryce Nesbitt]

I'm a data consumer also.
And I've faced tagging proposals that would break my imports also.

In general while I think the tagging / wiki voting system is pretty broken,
I also believe in mass re-tagging to make data more regular.
While there's a one time disruption due to re-tagging, the promise of more
rational data in the future makes it worth it.

The least short term pain is to leave the old tags alone and introduce new
tags, slowly eat away data.  But that's also the most painful long term.
Similar pain comes from deleting tags in the editor, as is done for Tiger
data in the USA.


We can imagine that draft of presets or renders can be dynamically
> generated by software

provided that a reference would be completed and maintained.


I have written a script that extracts from each editor (Merkator,  JOSM,
iD, Potlatch 2) and mapping tool (osmarender, mapnik)
which tags they have as presets, and which tags they render.  That could be
a start to a a grand unification system.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20150106/6991cf6a/attachment.html>