Dave F. wrote on 27.11.2015 15:44: > On 27/11/2015 02:50, Daniel Koć wrote: >> It would be impossible to render every tag (even if we just talk about >> those with Wiki page), but unfortunately we were not able to agree >> even on the most general rules: >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1630 > We're not talking about 'every' tag. It's about one entity that is > *already* rendered. To benefit the OSM database It was agreed to change > to a new tag. For the past couple of years Mapnik carto has failed to > change over.
>>> Am I right in thinking the style file has been updated only once in >>> over two years & that was just to delete comments? >> There's even a rough plan for so called "database reload": > Ah, It's a plan not a system :-) >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1504 > What is the 'database' that's referred to? Presumably not the main OSM one. All changes in the main OSM database (containing all data) are copied in a special rendering database for performance reason. This transformation had a white list of tags (highway=*, amenity=*, natural=*, landuse=*,...) which is available for rendering. Perhaps this was a bad idea, but this is the status quo, since many years. Changing this white list to a more open infrastructure requires a complete reload of the rendering database which needs a few days and many preparations. No one had the time to change that in their free time (no one is paid for managing the servers and software!) till now. >> however it seems it's not being worked on and Paul is not happy with >> such things, because he feels it will basically enable rendering more >> items (contrary to his view on the style): >> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1975#issuecomment-157134906 >> > Whatever his opinions are, the process used by OSM carto shouldn't > prevent an previously agreed/supported tag from being quickly added & > rendered. Exact that is the reason the developer wants to get rid of the white-list-only approach. This is the list of issues waiting for the change of the infrastructure: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%223.x+-+Needs+upgrade+to+openstreetmap-carto.style%22 -- regards Holger _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
