On 01/09/15 12:14, Dave F. wrote: > That the icon is used purely as a place holder & *removed* when a > picture is added proves its irrelevance. > > Why would a newbie care or even need to know the XML structure of the > database?
That there is a lot of material that is NOT rendered on the map is a fact. These do not have icons so the k=v is the IDEAL icon for entries in the wiki that ARE only available as XML data. > The wiki has to be a clear & simple as possible. > > "I see that icon as an indication that the detail I'm looking at has a > assortment of icons within the page." > "the only way of viewing data tagged by k=v is to search on the raw data > rather than expecting an icon to appear on the map." > > Sorry, but I don't really understand what you've said there. You seem to think that every page only as a single icon associated with it? A large number of pages have a column for the icon that relates to those sub-entries the page describes. Some sub-elements will again not be available rendered on a map. Perhaps we should simply strip the icon on the page header when there is no single selection, but it is a useful prompt that the page contains key/value data rather than other types of material. Are we now saying that the wiki is only allowed to document key/value elements that are rendered and therefore have to have icons defined? The growing number of maps do have different lists of rendered objects so even the fact that a page has an icon does not mean you will see it on the map you are looking at. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk