On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. What I suggest is to keep the current place key as a first
argument to prioritize places and use either population or
admin_level as a second argument in case the first is equal. So if
Paris is declared twice as a place=town
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Gustav Foseid wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM, David Earl
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I think we could do with a richer hierarchy something like this:
metropolis 500,000
city 100,000
large_town 25,000? 40,000?
town 10,000
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a very bad idea IMHO. This is just trying to fix what's wrong with
the town/city/village tags with more of the same tags.
In my opinion, the main problem is that it lacks granularity. I have no way
to say this town is
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Gustav Foseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ben Laenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a very bad idea IMHO. This is just trying to fix what's wrong with
the town/city/village tags with more of the same tags.
I don't understand the
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The question is coming because the name finder gives the same
importance to Paris, USA and Paris, France (or something like that).
Instead of making more artificial granularity on the place hierarchy
which is just moving the
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Gustav Foseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Pieren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you propose to replace place=hamlet/village/town/city with a
place=populated_place (or something similar) and just use otehr metrics for
rendering London
Tom Chance wrote:
Search 3 - Show pinpoints for the results on the map, so at least you can
quickly discard all those results from the wrong side of the globe.
Search 4 - use the current viewport as a hint.
Gerv
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A forth possibility is to use the relation boundary where
admin_level is provided:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary
If two places are in the same place (e.g. Paris France - US), then
it can be sorted by the lowest admin_level.
And admin_level is already an attempt to give a
The discussion of finding Paris Ontario equated to Paris France just now
reminds me to raise again the granularity of our place hierarchy.
Notwithstanding value judgements people make about what is a town, not
just based on population, I still think we need some more levels in the
city - town -
On 28/11/2008 11:42, Tom Chance wrote:
Two tagging thoughts and three search ideas...
All very helpful suggestions. I will look at taking those on board
(though some are more TomH's end than mine).
One thing that would help a lot is if US places were assigned is_in
tags. There's quite al ot I
On 28/11/2008 11:48, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
There aren't that many cities with duplicate/multiple names. So I'd guess a
wiki page where they are listed and the community decides a stacking order
would be straightforward enough. Obviously doing it at lower levels this
approach
Sorry, neglected to send this to the list...
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:14:54 +, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The discussion of finding Paris Ontario equated to Paris France just now
reminds me to raise again the granularity of our place hierarchy.
Notwithstanding value judgements
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Cheers
Andy
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The discussion of finding Paris Ontario equated to Paris France just now
reminds me to raise again
Hi,
David Earl wrote:
Another possibility is to make judgements about importance based on
land area.
A third possiblity would be, instead of defining the importance up-front
from some tags or database information, to compute importance from how
often something is sought or viewed. Google
On 28/11/2008 16:23, Richard Weait wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 12:09 +, David Earl wrote:
Some kind of importance tag could do the job, but how we define it in
a reasonably objective way that could be applied to more than just a few
special cases is hard, unless we use things like
On 28/11/2008 18:02, Richard Weait wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 17:16 +, David Earl wrote:
On 28/11/2008 16:23, Richard Weait
Population also gives us a nice objective data point that can often be
found on the sign at the edge of town. It's been in map features for a
while. We just
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