<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 09/06/2009, at 7:24 PM, Liz wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; ">On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:<br>> Am I right in thinking the following:<br>> * that major roads should/would have the highest priority<br>> * then town streets<br>> * minor out lying roads, rivers/streams, railways<br>> * street names<br>> * points of interest<br>> * place naming (eg type of shop)<br>> * street numbering<br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>This is a previous effort of mine from before smoothness tags ;-)<br>Worth expanding now with your list, so go for it<br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Starting_with_a_Blank_Map">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Starting_with_a_Blank_Map</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>As well as things that look important on the map, it might also be worth checking if you have the opportunity to map something that later mappers will find difficult</div><div><br></div><div>To use the river/streams example from above, I'd say that if you have the chance to _accurately_ trace a waterway, it might be worth doing before most of the things. Other people who come along later will be able to get the roads, but they may not have a boat to go down the river on.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> James "Doc" Livingston</div></body></html>