On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi James, > Yes, the specialized municipalities cause some problems.... I checked in > the source listing and it should be (which won't produce a match, and > therefore no change to existing nodes): > Sherwood Park (Urban Service Area) = Hamlet > Fort McMurray (Urban Service Area) = Hamlet
Every map is an abstraction of the truth on the ground. For one thing we jam the whole world onto a small-ish piece of paper. So we know that not everything can be perfect. OSM has approximated places by population through hamlet, village, town, etc. partly because population is often found on the sign at the edge of town. Will we gain much by changing place to the official designation if it causes a rendering failure? I think it unlikely that every official designation world-wide will get renderer support. Perhaps we can add official_designation = "Urban Service Area" , and leave place = an expected value. If The Fort, for example, deserves to be more or less prominent than the true population would suggest, then change it to the "proper" place value in your judgement. Then leave a note= so others don't mistakenly change it back. In summary, adding the official municipal designation may help some users. The average user may be better supported by a good render. This is a bit of "mapping for the renderer" but it is more "there has to be some abstraction or else we map at 1:1". Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
