Hi Richard,
On 07/01/13 14:56, Richard Welty wrote:
On 1/7/13 9:07 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
Not everything will render on every display. Some objects will be
left out
as a matter of choice; a specialty golf course rendering might not show
libraries and playgrounds. Some objects will be left out as a matter of
luck; some renderings choose to only render those objects that don't
collide / overlap with other objects.
So, don't worry about what renders on which display. Use available tags,
as correctly as you can. Objects will still be findable in search, etc.
i think this is a point worth expanding upon:
OSM consists of a Geo Database, and a suite of data consumers. the
mapnik rendering on openstreetmap.org is not the only consumer of the
data, there are various GPS apps that use it, various smartphone apps,
and alternative websites like opencyclemap and openfiremap, and especially
the suite of maps on itoworld
so break free of the constraint of thinking that OSM is just the map
rendered on www.openstreetmap.org, it's really much more than that.
Thank you for taking the time to share those extra details. I was aware
of most info as I also use OSM maps on Navit for gps navigation.
However, one friend of mine came to me and said something like "Hey, you
are into this OpenStreetMap stuff - we have a meeting on X street by
that Y bookshop. I wanted to have a link on my website for people to
find it on OpenStreetMap instead of Google map, can you add that
bookshop in?"
I understand what you've written above, but to many people OpenStreetMap
is a way of providing an alternative to Google maps. To my mind (but I
could be entirely wrong here), the Mapnik renderer is sort of a
reference renderer to be looked up to - as it is part of the OSM
project. So I always sort of expected it to be as complete as possible
for common tags (but that's just a personal opinion, sort of an
assumption). I was just wondering why something as common as a bookshop
(which already has appropriate icons in Potlatch 2) doesn't even show up
as a name on OSM (Mapnik).
Regards,
Sebastian
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