On 14.03.2011 03:12, David Murn wrote: > >> I’ve gone and fixed some of the flaws. For example, the page was >> implying that something is render a certain way, but was really just >>> making rendering suggestions. > [...] > If you really want to correct the situation, work the other way and make > your choice of render follow the rules that 'something is rendered a > certain way'.
That's exactly what's wrong with the phrasing on that wiki page. You cannot define "rules" that something is rendered a certain way and expect renderers to follow them. The wiki tagging pages document how to represent a certain aspect of reality in the database, and nothing else. Valid statements could be "tag x is rendered as z by renderer A" or "tag x is commonly rendered as z". You can describe how renderers interpret a tag, but you cannot prescribe it. > If shop=florist doesnt render in renderer A but it does in renderer B, > that doesnt mean that you should rewrite the wiki page to say that > shop=florist is really only a rendering suggestion. A closer comparison would be a wiki page that says "shop=florist is rendered as a red flower". That wiki page should then be fixed by either removing that statement entirely, or changing it to "MegaShopMap 2.0 renders shop=florist as a red flower". If the tag's definition is based on some widely known standard, you can even write something like "the tag shop=florist is equivalent to the 'Red Flower' label as defined by SMSB 2011-31337". But that still doesn't mean that renderers have to use the standardized symbol. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
