On 10/20/2010 01:43 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I guess that Tübingen is more known to the average German then
Reutlingen, but that's just a guess. As written before, traditionally
cartographers gave more importance to Tübingen, while in current
automated internet cartography Tübingen looses almost always against
Reutlingen. Maybe this is a reflection of a changed interpretation of
importance but I fear it is simply a loss in quality...
Probably a bit of both.
Some more complicated set of heuristics for scoring the prominence of a
place would definitely be useful here (and everywhere).
It all depends upon what one wants to emphasise on a map.
One possible course of action would be to update the renderers to use
population (or a more complicated system) and then deprecate the place=*
tag for municipalities. (place=island and place=islet obviously aren’t
relevant to this discussion).
Perhaps we need to shift the discussion to actually figuring out a
better replacement for place=*?
—Alex Mauer “hawke”
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