On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Wouldn't it be an idea to simply render a pass "importance" based on the > type of highway it is connected to?
That's a heuristic which will work well in some areas, but I doubt it will be flexible enough to give a good result everywhere. I've seen passes in Peru that were only mule tracks, but were still very significant landmarks. > On my personal map, I'm displaying all > passes that are connected to a highway=track with tracktype=grade1 (and all > "higher") - works well for planning my street motorcycle trips. Right, your motorcycle bias is showing through :) > Otherwise, a single importance tag will be important for which audience? A > mountain_pass on an international hiking route might be important for hikers > ("highest pass on this hiking trip"), but not even accessible by bike. So > marking this one important is pretty misleading for someone not planning a > hiking trip. > > If we want to distinguish the importance for specific groups we would then > need a hiking_importance, bicycle_importance, motorcycle_importance, ... Interesting point, to which I don't have an answer. I think it would be a good idea if we put some thought into defining the major map audiences, rather than considering it to be an infinite list, though. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk