Tobias Knerr wrote: > Dave F. wrote: > >> 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" >> > > I agree that a renderer should be able to deal with tags like > disused=yes. I also agree that disused is widely used, so it cannot > reasonably be ignored anymore, and replacing it with an alternative way > of tagging probably is no longer an option. > > However, I believe that using a common key instead of > disused/construction/abandoned/...=yes and distinguishing these using > different *values* would have been the better alternative. Common Key? Can you give an example?
If you mean status=disused, I'm not sure how that get around the problem of ignoring all other keys. railway=station status=disused If status is ignored, this would still display as a functioning station. > Once > applications would have learned about the key, they would have been able > to handle new values immediately. > > I also recommend that, when tags are created in the future, they should > be designed so that they can be ignored unless there are important > reasons for breaking that rule. > > Tobias Knerr > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk