On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com>wrote:
> This seems like a confusing proposal to ensure that a tiny fraction of > a percentage of the whitespace on OSM.org gets *something* rendered in > it. > > No, it's a proposal to encourage people to tag for the future and to smooth transitions to better tag schemes. IMHO one of the reasons we get stuck with bad schemes is that switching is so unattractive. If you go around changing existing tags to something marginally better, all renderers will instantly stop rendering anything. That's a huge disincentive. Steve
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