On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:48:15PM +0200, spaetz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: > > > The biggest problem around place names is currently that there are only > > a few levels for places: city, town, village, hamlet and suburb. And there > > is no way to mark capitals. > > There is always population=200000, etc which can help you to find the biggest > ones. And what prevents us from adding capital=yes to those cities? I don't > think that the tagging is insufficient today. OK there might be a more > subjective "important" city tag, and there are problems with suburbs and all > that. But I don't see that point as a big problem.
I find 207 000 places in Europe and only 57 000 population tags. Actually better than I thought. Probably from some import. But from the 1044 cities only 297 have such a tag. So there still is some work to do before this can be used in the renderer. I can't find a "capital" tag on MapFeatures. And its not enough anyway, because we need the different levels. Not very difficult to do, but somebody has to write that up and people have to tag the data before it can be rendered. So, yes, in the grand scheme of things, this problem is a small problem, but for the labelling of place names some more work has to be done on it. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
