[OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
Has anyone discussed the creation of a comprehensiveness or level of detail rating? What I mean by this is different from a quality rating or metric, as that is a very difficult task which entails comparison against authoritative sources or some other process, and different from the general

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread pec...@gmail.com
2011/5/6 Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com: Has anyone discussed the creation of a comprehensiveness or level of detail rating? What I mean by this is different from a quality rating or metric, as that is a very difficult task which entails comparison against authoritative sources or some other

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
I think it makes sense to have several rating systems, this is specific for an individual road, but we can also have one for trails, another for POIs, etc, and yet another for country-level details. For example, the Philippines wiki project created a level of detail rating for the whole country,

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
Josh Doe wrote: Here's a shot at a few levels, with a slight orientation towards routing, probably the most common use of road data: Level 0: Road way present and connected to other ways, and tagged at least with highway=road if classification is unknown Level 1: Name and classification

Re: [OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

2011-05-06 Thread Josh Doe
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Some physical keys could be added to the list, such as width and lanes. However, I wonder whether a total ordering is the best approach. Look at the physical descriptions from your example (bridges, tunnels, surface).