[OSM-talk] Tagging FOR the renderer

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 16.05.2015 1:57, Rob Nickerson napisał(a):

> The people behind the default map render have put a lot of work in to
> trying to develop a map style which works well for the average OSM
> mapper. To have anyone come along and add their own styling for any
> map feature they like would be chaos. We'd end up in a map style edit
> war!! Also even if a mapper found a style and colour that worked for
> the default OpenStreetMap render, it wouldn't work with other map
> styles (Humanitarian, MapQuest, etc..).

I also don't think we should let anybody do anything on default map, 
however the general idea is good if we split the problem:

1. We should have some tools to let people render their own style, no 
matter how crazy. It's possible of course from the technical point of 
view (the data and tools are available and the licenses are open), but 
that is far too complicated for average Joe or Jane. I suspect kind of 
P2P tools would be great, but have no clear ideas about it. The positive 
output would be more people can edit map style and we have more experts 
for working with default style.

2. But default map style is still underused. Reluctance to show 
"everything" on merits that it's "impossible", because it should be "a 
mess", probably does not take into account that some features may be 
rendered only on highest zoom levels. For example we have trash cans and 
benches from the latest version of osm-carto and that is not a problem, 
because they are rendered on z>=19!

> I know you'd love to have a map that renders everything but you will
> not get that from OpenStreetMap. As all the data is available there is
> nothing to stop you setting up your own map renderer and doing as you
> please (although good luck making it look anything other than a mess).

As I said in 1. - for nerds it's not a problem at all, but for the most 
of OSM mappers (see the long tail thread) that is not the option until 
they have as easy to use tools as iD for editing.

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