Here the editor has painstakingly added many tags, alas not the vital one needed to get this massive antenna on the Map, as you see. What did he miss? Thanks.
For the avoidance of doubt, which map are you referring to?
Iâm guessing youâre talking about the general purpose (and fairly slow moving) âOSM Cartoâ layer that can be seen via OSM.org. Have you tried asking them whether they think features such as this are a good fit for their map?
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Correct:
the Map, as you see.
I was thinking of using some of their existing framework.
Then it could be rendered in a jiffy.
Iâll leave any more complex proposals to people with aviation experience.
Maybe because beacon:type=VOR;DME has a semicolon. And itâs not VORTAC. This is not standard, but widely used. See taginfo on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:beacon:type
Otherwise the tagging seems sane.
VOR is rendered. Seems to be a renderer value resolution problem.
As a workaround you could map it as area/building/man-made antenna.
Even better the rendering should be fixed, and VORTAC added to the list after proper consultation in Tagging Mailinglist and Community Forum.
Thatâs why I asked the question that I did at the top of the thread 
Essentially, everyone needs to stop expecting the âOSM Cartoâ style to show this sort of thing. Itâs a bit like trying to teach your cat to make you a cup of tea - you can try as much as you like, and it might be a shame that it canât do it, but youâd be wasting your time because itâs simply not within its nature to do that.
I donât think that there are any styles available from osm.org that would show it, but there may be others hosted elsewhere. This style would, but that map only covers UK/IE. Iâm sure that there are others though - someone must have done an âair/flight-focusedâ one.
PS: The actual feature here is marked âairmark=beaconâ and âman_made=antennaâ. There are lots already mapped.
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Just in case youâre not aware, you didnât link to a map. You linked to a feature on the https://www.openstreetmap.org website. There are 6 different maps available there - which map people will see when they click on your link will depend on which of those 6 maps they were looking at last.
Well âMapnikâ hasnât really been a tile layer since Barack Obamaâs first term as president
It dates from when there were two tile layers, one using some software called âMapnikâ and dating from before 2012. In 2012 the âStandardâ style on osm.org changed to use âOSM Cartoâ stylesheets that are much easier to edit - compare this with this.
Iâve changed the wiki page to reflect what actually happens - in a new browser page or new empty tab youâll get the âStandardâ style, but otherwise youâll get whatever style you were last looking at.
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Thereâs no letter to force Carto,
only letters to force the other styles?!
The letter M is used to force the default/carto style - the choice of letter is a hangover from when that layer was referred to as the mapnik style. It wasnât changed when we renamed the style in order to avoid breaking existing links.
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Itâs a wiki - you could have a go at changing it yourself? Initially perhaps just change âNo Suffixâ to âNo suffix or Mâ?
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Done! Thanks.
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