[OSM-talk] Map features page on wiki

[Jochen Topf]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:54:09AM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > Il giorno 01 ott 2016, alle ore 16:23, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> ha scritto:
> > 
> > OpenStreetMap Carto is given special treatment on osm.org by being the default layer, so the wiki should reflect that.
> 
> 
> Just because there's already special treatment does not mean we have to carve it in stone. The icons which osm carto currently displays, belong into an osm carto map key, not in the wiki on feature definition pages or map features compilation pages. Let's not mix up the cartographic representation and interpretation and choices of a specific style with the definition of the tags. It was always postulated that osm is about data, and that the osm carto style is just a demo implementation of one possible interpretation of this data.

But it is the style that people use to check their edits. I just see
this as "giving people what they want". The current Map Feature page
shows that there are people who thought this was a good idea, otherwise
they wouldn't have gone through the considerable effort of adding those
images to the wiki.

Jochen
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