Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com>: > It seems to me that network=US:US:Business:MD is the logical extension of > a scheme that has US:US and US:US:Business.
My initial reaction is that this goes too far in mixing geographic, classification, and rendering concepts, which has a bad smell: * It forces one to state explicitly what is already available implicitly somewhere else: if a renderer wants to display a Maryland-specific US Business shield, then it can already do so by determining whether the point at which the US:US:Business shield is to be rendered is within MD. Alternatively, the renderer could look for a "responsible agency" or "owning agency" style tag. (I don't even know if such a tag exists, admittedly.) * It forces mappers to have knowledge of which agencies use non-standard shields, so that they can break the relations at those agencies and add the agency-specific tag. (Whereas, where agencies use the "standard" shield, relations can stretch over agency boundaries.) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
