On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Zeke Farwell <ezeki...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is similar to the concept that the definition of highway=primary can > vary greatly depending on the area of the world you are looking at. I'm not > sure how we can use things like runway length, size of airport polygon, or > annual air traffic to calculate this kind of relative importance. In my > opinion it really requires the input of a local mapper. Thoughts?
Absolutely. I think it's important to have clear definitions like "importance 3 is given to airports with X runways" *within* geographic regions (countries?), but not *across* them. This can be managed effectively through wiki pages for each country, describing the local rules, like http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines Then, the only coordination required across countries is that they all use "importance=3" to mean "an airport important at a regional level, but not one of the most important airports for the country", or whatever. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
