David Earl escribió: > On 10/11/2008 11:18, Marc Schütz wrote: > >>> Gerald A wrote: >>> >>>> Renderers should be following the project. If the community >>>> decides one tag over the other, or both, or even neither, the >>>> renders will catch up eventually. >>>> >>> But the community has decided with a vote of 1:10 to use >>> highway=barrier rather than barrier=gate. >>> >> It has not. There may be ten times more highway=gate in the DB than >> barrier=gate, but what percentage of the community that is aware of >> the new tags actually prefers the old tags when adding new objects? >> You'd have to watch the relative frequency of the two tags over time >> to see, which one is growing, and therefore, on which the community >> has decided. >> yep that´s the real vote and, yes, higway=gate has 17000 uses and barrier=gate has 1400 in europe but barrier=gate is been there for just 2 weeks. > > It's a chicken and egg though. I really don't care what what the words I > have to type to get a gate are, but if the renderers don't support the > new tag I'll be inclined to carry on using the old one (since there is > no advantage in using the new one, and the old one is built in to my > fingers). Indeed, if the renderers don't actually drop support for the > old one, I can't see any particular reason to change - the new tag > doesn't do anything extra, it's just a self-selected group of people's > preference for one word instead of another. > > is just a matter of concept, a gate is a highway or a barrier? and a matter of tag organization.
but the answer is up to each of us. the use you choose will be that real vote > And so long as I or others continue to use the old one, what incentive > is there for the renderers to switch? > > David > > osmrender does support "barrier=gate". > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
