[amenity-points] Don't render guideposts as tourist information points

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: augustus.kling[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 4.43pm, Tuesday, 19th October 2010]

The Mapnik layer on OSM currently shows the letter i for tourist information points (tagged by tourism=information). This is the correct behavior.

However if nodes are tagged by tourism=information and information=guidepost those are also rendered as i. Because the icon is usually used for information offices the rendering of guidepost is highly ambiguous and distracting.

Expected behavior (preferred): Render the guideposts with an own icon, like the Osmarender layer does.

Expected behavior (alternative): Don't render information points at all unless also tagged information=office.

Data usage according to taginfo.openstreetmap.de: tourism=information is used 68765 times. information=guidepost is used 39196 times (61.3% of usages of information key). Assuming that information=guidepost is only specified in combination with tourism=information (as stated in the wiki) this affects about 57% cases where the i is rendered. Additionally, other values of the information key also lead to a confusing rendering.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: augustus.kling[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.26pm, Wednesday, 20th October 2010]

I coincidentally found case #1961 that is very similar. Although the cases are not really duplicates, solving one should also solve the other.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.45pm, Monday, 14th April 2014]

This issue is now being discussed on Github:
gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto#324

Therefore, I will close the issue here.