[OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

[Tobias Knerr]

On 21.09.2016 01:33, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> I added it to the infobox as osmcarto-rendering.
>
> It is currently only used in the supermarket page:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dsupermarket

Maybe I'm a bit late to the party, but I don't feel it's great to give 
special treatment to Mapnik in the infobox, and there is not enough room 
for presenting all the renderers there.

While placing the icon in the infobox is probably the easiest way to 
make it available to Taginfo, we shouldn't forget that it also 
determines how renderer support is presented on the tag pages. And in 
that regard, I find it's a less than ideal solution.

Quite some time ago, someone suggested a "Rendering" section on tag 
pages, with example images for all (or at least a wider selection of) 
renderers supporting the feature. This wouldn't be limited to icons, 
either, but would also work for area styles, for example. I would 
clearly prefer a presentation along those lines, as it would represent 
the diversity of OSM rendering in a way that a Mapnik icon does not.

Of course this leaves the issue how to implement something along these 
lines while still allowing Taginfo to access the content. I don't 
pretend I have a solution, but could this information be integrated into 
the Taginfo projects JSON somehow? If I remember correctly, there is 
already the possibility to add icon urls.