Render tower:type=communication (always)

[jaakkoh]

This relates (at least in part) to Issue #181. In fact, my comment to it explains to whole thing - just wanted to open a separate issue for this in case as rendering of man_made=tower could mean different things, too:

"if there's a tower:type=communication in conjunction with man_made=mast then that icon is shown in OSM Mapnik (example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2666366790).

I think this same rendering should happen when using man_made=tower (with tower:type=communication), which currently doesn't (http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2489765793)."

[matkoniecz]

@math1985

#1366 (comment)

I have asked the Dutch community to change their tagging scheme.

Is there any result? Or is the tagging situation still at state that makes data unusable?

[matthijsmelissen]

Is there any result? Or is the tagging situation still at state that makes data unusable?

No result yet, I made a new call to the Dutch community.

[martinum4]

so, any results jet? what makes the rendering of tower:type=communication (or man_made=tower if you don't want to render the other one) impossible?

[PontiacCZ]

Still no change? man_made=mast, tower:type=communication apparently used to be rendered, The Wiki shows us which icon was used for this object. Most likely someone just made a mistake when editing the stylesheets. What does take so long to fix it?

There is a man_made=tower, tower:type=communication tagged on a single node here but it's not rendered.

Less important masts get rendered without problems.

[kocio-pl]

@math1985 Are you still trying to discuss or is it time to decide? The PR should be rather easy to make.

[boothym]

This really needs to be sorted out. I'm amazed that a tag with 35,000 uses gets rendered (even though they might not be used for communication), but the tower:type=communication tag with almost 100,000 uses is ignored.

If there's a problem with incorrect tagging in one country that's a data problem and no reason not to render the tag elsewhere.

[kocio-pl]

One problem is deciding, the other is purely technical - does tower:type=* tag need database reload and what notation should be used in project.mml and in amenity-points.mss (colon is not typical part of tag)?

There's also very similar tag, which should be rendered the same way, probably on z16+, since it's for large structure - man_made=communications_tower (almost 4k uses).

[Tomasz-W]

I think this issue shoud be closed and further discussion should move to #2556.