On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:18:22 +0900 Woll Newall <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the OSM Mapnik slippy map, the rendering of place names seems to > be rather "random" at different zoom levels. Cities seem to appear > and disappear as I zoom in, and 'large' cities don't appear but > 'tiny' ones do. There's always been problems with hierarchies of places, and I really think it's about time we did something about it. Particularly towns/cities where we need some way of tagging a city's importance. Two examples come to mind: Istanbul, Turkey which according to Wikipedia is the fourth largest city in the world. Doesn't appear when zoomed out but Ankara, the official capital does. St Davids, Wales. Which is the size of a village, is officially a city, but has the importance of a town. Whilst nearby Haverfordwest is more important, being the main town in the county, but doesn't appear because a city is considered more important. But also other features such as rail lines and railway stations, peaks, etc. We need to keep the village/town/city tags because it is important to know the official designation of a place, so what we need is a tag to designate how important the place is and therefore what zoom levels it shows on. However, this would be tagging for the renderer and therefore considered by most to be inherently bad. -- Alice _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
