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> Am 18.03.2016 um 22:36 schrieb John Willis <[email protected]>:
> 
> OSM wants local knowledge, per this idea, but not the kind that could lead to 
> better rendered maps or better routing. 



importance is relative and it depends on your criteria which things you 
consider more important than others. I agree that we should better map the 
properties that make something important rather than stuff it all in a 
generalized "importance" tag. For mountains this will likely mean to look at 
prominence and topographic isolation, for train stations it can be amount of 
passengers or trains per time, or size (amount of platforms), availability of 
highspeed trains, etc., for airports similarly you could look at amount and 
size of runway/s, passengers/time, amount of connections etc.
the problem with rendering is that these calculations are typically too 
expensive to do them on the fly, but we could use precomputed data and 
integrate it in a coastline like way (external shape file or pre-computed 
attribute)


cheers,
Martin 
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