On 12/22/2010 02:53 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > > > On 12/22/10 2:22 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > rather than get into detailed back-and-forth, i'm going to suggest a > framework > for deciding when it's appropriate to put something in a ref tag. > > 1) ref tags tend to get rendered at some zoom level. for mapnik or > osmarender, > there may be some decluttering going on, tags may not be rendered until a > certain zoom level, or some ref tags may be selectively omitted. will > including > these detailed reference tags cause a clutter problem. > > 2) likewise, ref tags may get included in the text banner at the top of > (for > example) a garmin display. again, will this be helpful to the end user > or confusing > to the end user. > > 3) routing algorithms may choose to include ref tag info in the > directions they > generate. same comment as 2 applies here. did the info help or hurt?
This isn't a problem with the data itself, but with the renderers. I'm talking about a problem with how we handle the data, the folks developing the renderers can just deal with it like they have every other tag. >
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