2010/6/1 John Smith <[email protected]>: > On 1 June 2010 19:41, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> why should we use a theory of spacial planning of the 1930ies that is >> loosing importance, and that is (as far as I understand it) less > > I think he was making a point about others already trying to > standardise cities and how they weren't able to do it either and they > probably spent a lot more time and effort on the problem.
Well, actually I think the idea is not that bad at all, as it describes how "important" a place is to its surroundings, based on how broad and specialised the services it offers are. For example, I've been in a Croatian Island for mapping, er, vacation last year. The "capital" of this island has half the population of the village in Germany where I lived in my childhood, but it's a real town, offering far more services than a typical German village in the middle Rhine valley. ;-) But I don't know how to implement something like this in osm without running into a discussion on how important or unimportant single services are (in different cultures, of course). -Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
