Re:The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
by Freak_NL on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:11PM
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Effectively. There are two PRs (one a stand-in minimal solution, another a fully worked out one) which solve this problem; neither has gotten merged or even seriously considered. If you dig around a little the gatekeeping patterns become obvious, and you'll also note a number of other maintainers giving up and resigning. But don't do that; it just makes for depressing reading.
Besides, regardless of what he says there, there isn't even a single thin line on Carto rendered maps to indicate the presence of significant infrastructure where this tag is used. That inaction speaks clearer than his words.
> Since the matter of consensus based decision making has been put into the foreground i like to emphasize again that in contrast to many other matters in this style there is no lack of maintainer consensus on this issue. And even if there was disagreement on a concrete decision - i have stated many times now that from my side that would not stand in the way of merging a change implementing this and none of the other maintainers has indicated that this is a matter of fundamental importance for them either.