Hi Folks! I'm the one who originally created the proposal.
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:52:33PM +0800, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > Hmmm... I guess the main problem that people have is that a tag like > "importance" (or its synonyms) is inherently subjective and a subjective > tag is Yeah, I see that point, but many things in the OSM are quite subjective (as you say yourself, the level of a road, or is it a halt or a station? is this a touristic spot or not?) At the moment renderers have the problem, that the information in OSM is very huge, and maps look cluttered. The importance-key (which is more or less derived from features on the ground) could help. Maybe we should give more examples what you can use the key for: Place of Worships: Cathedral amenity=place_of_worship importance=regional/national Church amenity=place_of_worship importance=urban Chapel amenity=place_of_worship importance=suburban > For what it's worth, I viewed the purpose of the importance tag in the context > of a general-purpose map which OSM is by default (though it can and does > support specialist maps like the Cycle Map). I guess such importance/ > popularity/prominence data can conceivably be compiled as a separate database > to be maintained by those who are interested in it instead of being included > into OSM. Brrr ... seperate databases ... I don't see a reason why we would need a seperate database for this (I think this would be really hard to maintain and nobody would use it). greetings, Stephan -- Seid unbequem, seid Sand, nicht Öl im Getriebe der Welt! - Günther Eich ,---------------------------------------------------------------------. | Stephan Plepelits, | | Technische Universität Wien - Studium Informatik & Raumplanung | | > openstreetbrowser.org > couchsurfing.com > tubasis.at > bl.mud.at | | sk...@xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at - My Blog: http://plepe.at | `---------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk