[Tilesathome] Ways through tiles, but no nodes

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ed Loach wrote:
> I had considered this, but some people thing tagging for renderers
> is wrong. I'll put it on that list of things I might get around to
> at some point...

The sentence about "not tagging for renderers" is the most 
mis-understood in all of OSM. It is true that whenever you suggest 
something pragmatic, there is guaranteed to be someone who chastises you 
for suggesting to "tag for the renderer".

The phrase comes from a time when people did really stupid things. We 
had one specialist who would draw three adjacent ways through a forest, 
one tagged a cycleway, one a bridleway, and one a footway, to achieve 
nice rendering of three different hiking routes. Things like this - 
where you actually tag something *wrong* to get a nice map - are to avoid.

There is, however, nothing against tagging for a renderer if it is done 
explicitly (as in "osmarender:renderName=no"), and there is also nothing 
against making things easier for everyone by having a node in your way 
every 5km instead of going 2000km without any node (or resisting to 
create ways with a five-digit number of nodes).

Bye
Frederik

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