On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 08:54:09AM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > Il giorno 01 ott 2016, alle ore 16:23, Paul Norman 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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