[Tagging] city/settlement importance -- WAS [OSM-talk] The biggest violation of OpenStreetMap, ever.

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-15 19:47 GMT+02:00 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>:

> Making a rank or importance attribute is entirely subjective. It might as
> well be a tag like importance:according_to:Bob=5.
> If it was objective, then there could be a number like
> annual_number_of_tourists=350000 or annual_number_of_pilgrims=1400000. For
> economic importance some other figure, a number nobody can refute.
>


while I agree somehow, the algorithm might be so complex that you'd have to
put a very long list of tags to the object and there might be stuff that is
hardly puttable into tags, but might still be verifiable. Also figures like
annual_number_of_tourists or annual_number_of_pilgrims are not verifiable
by the small on the ground mapper, and institutions in charge of
determining these figures might be tempted to cheat in order to appear more
important, so there will always remain some doubt ;-)


cheers,
Martin
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