Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 June 2011 06:02, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 24-6-2011 4:25, Robin Paulson wrote: mappers in NZ have recently imported a lot of grass airstrips into OSM. it appears the airstrips only render at zoom 10 on the mapnik render of the map at osm.org, which looks like this:

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread Lennard
On 25-6-2011 8:35, John Smith wrote: Wasn't there some discussion about that before, how important airports such as LAX should show sooner than regional airports which should show up sooner than grass airstrips. Oh, more than once. Nothing (that I know of) came of that.

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 June 2011 20:19, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 25-6-2011 8:35, John Smith wrote: Wasn't there some discussion about that before, how important airports such as LAX should show sooner than regional airports which should show up sooner than grass airstrips. Oh, more than once.

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/25 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Wasn't there some discussion about that before, how important airports such as LAX should show sooner than regional airports which should show up sooner than grass airstrips. Yes, the discussions and proposals are endless for this. Suggestions

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread Alan Millar
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:03 AM, John Smith wrote: Seems pretty simple to me, importance is going to be partially subjective, even if 2 airports have similar number of flights, some will have 747s 380s and some won't. highway=* classifications seems at least partially subjective as well. I

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 26 June 2011 02:38, Alan Millar grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: As has been said a number of times, OSM is a do-ocracy. At this point, more discussions just aren't going to resolve it. A little discussion might allow us to harmonise tags, so 10 people don't go off and do their own thing and

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:55 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a fan of subtagging :) So I'd be more likely to do something like this: aeroway=aerodrome aerodrome=[major|minor|regional|airstrip] I could maybe see some confusion between minor and regional but it could work.

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-24 Thread Lennard
On 24-6-2011 4:25, Robin Paulson wrote: mappers in NZ have recently imported a lot of grass airstrips into OSM. it appears the airstrips only render at zoom 10 on the mapnik render of the map at osm.org, which looks like this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.243lon=175.014zoom=10layers=M