[Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

[Peter Budny]

Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Budny <peterb at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
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>> I forgot to mention control cities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_city).
>> These are cities that are designated for use on highway signs to
>> indicate which direction you're heading.  These should definitely appear
>> on the map, even if they're relatively small cities (e.g. Valdosta,
>> Georgia).
>
> Control cities for highway destination signs are only important on
> maps for which control cities on highway
> destination signs are important.  Tagging Valdosta as control_city=yes
> might make sense, but tagging it as prominent=yes does not.  Just as
> tagging Athens, GA as 80s_band_origin_city=yes might make sense, but
> tagging it as prominent=yes does not.  Even if you are making a Cities
> of the 80s Bands Map.
>
> So don't promote Valdosta based on one aspect of the nature of
> Valdosta.  Tell OSM about the nature of Valdosta then render it based
> on the aspects that are important for your audience.  Not everybody
> cares about my band map.  Or your highway control cities.

Totally fair.  I should have written "being a control city should be
included as one criterion (of many) to determine whether to label a city
and how big its label should be."  I would definitely support
control_city=yes (or maybe control_city={1-5}, for a bit more
granularity).
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Peter Budny  \
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