Christoph Böhme wrote: > In my opinion the name tag is used as a general purpose tag in OSM for > names of all sorts of things. So, it appeared quite natural to use it > for recording the names of the plus bus zones as well. From the other > tags renderers can easily guess what type of object the name belongs to > and the decide if it should be displayed. So there is no need to use > namespaced versions of the name tag just to prevent the renderer from > displaying it.
It is rather useful that Mapnik will display a name of a feature which is of general interest but may have unknown tagging. For a new feature like PlusBus zones that are not intended for display on a general purpose map, it make more sense for them not to have a name or ref tag than to enter each one of them for non-display in the general Mapnik stylesheet. As a general rule, a new feature should not break existing code if possible. It is easily possible in this case by adding a prefix, with very little downside. Chris _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
