Tobias Knerr wrote: > Because tags like disused=yes conflict with a general principle in OSM: > We don't have a fixed set of tags and mappers can invent and use their > own tags, so it should be possible for software to ignore tags it > doesn't know without causing problems. If I don't support distinguishing > between different variants of amenity=parking, I just ignore parking=* > tags entirely, and while the result is less useful, it's still correct. > If I don't support disused features, I can just ignore disused=yes tags > ... no wait, I can't. > > Of course, in order to make mapping convenient, it's sometimes necessary > to break that concept (with access tags, for example), and probably we > won't be able to get rid of > disused/abandoned/construction/planned/proposed/etc anymore. > Unfortunately, people didn't seem to like my status=disused/... proposal > very much. > > Tobias Knerr I can't work out if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me, but anyway...
Are you suggesting there's no exception rule for renderers?: Ignore all subsequent keys except for ones label disused or abandoned" Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
