On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:29 +0000, Janko Mihelić wrote: > pon, 21. ožu 2016. u 23:28 Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> napisao je: > > > > Almost 5 months of discussing and hand tweaking the algorithm tells > > me > > just having the hard (numerical) data might be not as easy as you > > depict > > it. Raw population data is far from having world-range city ranking > > we > > needed. > I wasn't talking about raw data like population. I was talking about > the number of articles about cities. That means number of articles in > different languages. I think it's a great way to see what the crowd > from around the world thinks is important. > > For example, Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus, has a population of > 25 000 and 110 articles. A nearby city, Beit Shemesh, has a > population of 100 000 and 32 articles. I think that's a great way to > decide which city to display on lower zooms. Even better, you could > add the length of text in all articles. An important city will almost > always have more text than a less important one. And in the end, add > population into the mix for good measure. > > The same thing about peaks. > > Transportation is probably not as present in Wikipedia, but I'm sure > all the important airports have their articles. > Every railway station seems to have a wikipedia page, even if is says no more than can be deduced by looking at it on OSM. Phil (trigpoint)
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