On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/4/2012 2:43 PM, Chris Lawrence wrote: >> >> Renderers can fallback to the longest >> left-anchored substring they understand for weird things they don't >> understand. > > > Bad idea. Google Maps does something like this and it results in 'bannered' > routes appearing without banners.
Meh. I was mostly referring to weird stuff like US:TX:FM:Business or US:US:Business:MD. To me, US:US:Business:MD falling back on US:US:Business is fine. Tagwatch processes should catch common cases like US:US:Alternate and US:US:Business and ensure they get rendered correctly. Besides, if we slapped the info in the ref tag, our naive data consumers would just render a foot-wide shield with "460 Business" in it. Or break at the space and do the exact thing Google's doing with bannered routes already. Stupid data consumers are stupid data consumers; there's no technical solution for it. Chris _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us