Andrew: > There is a serious problem with that, in that ‘place=city > population=5000’ is > an “oh no it isn’t” tag in the same way that ‘railway=station > disused=yes’ is.
Except the first example would cause a place=city node to render as a city whatever the population (depending on your individual rendering rules), and the second example would render something that is no longer a station as a station (again depending on your rendering rules). At the moment we have towns tagged as cities and cities tagged as towns because some people have decided to tag places based on population to make them render as they think they should on a rendered that they probably don't maintain the stylesheet for. I *could* add a tag natural=beach to golf=bunker to make it render now, waiting for changes to the stylesheet, rather than retagging cities and towns based on population rather than their official designation. Someone in this thread suggested using another tag. I forget the suggestion but along the lines of designation=city or official=city or something. I briefly thought that this was a good solution, but after further consideration realised we would probably need to always add it to place nodes in the UK just to confirm that we have tagged something as what it actually is, and not as something different based on area or population. Correcting the ones that are tagged other than what they are and amending the renderer(s) if required sounds an easier solution to me. Ed _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
