[Tagging] Landmarks and viewpoints

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 17 June 2016, Amacri wrote:
> Many trekkers and bikers consider that the current Mapnik style
> provides an unsightly rendering of mountain areas and I am with them.
> Among the many aspects that would need improvement, there is a need
> that notable places which are effective references in a mountainous
> area could not only be shown at high zoom level (e.g., >=16 or >=17)
> but also at medium zooms (e.g., >=13 or 14), in accordance with the
> common practice used in standard topographic maps (e.g., 1:50000 -
> 1:25000 - 1:10000).

Keep in mind that because Mercator is a variable scale projection there 
is no direct relationship between zoom level and scale.  At a typical 
resolution computer screen z13 for example can be somewhere between 
about 1:70000 (Equator) and 1:8000 (northern Greenland).

> With this preamble, it might appear rather complex to discuss about a
> proposal aiming to address a different visibility of reference
> elements in scarcely populated places. Would it be possible or this
> will lead too far away from the actual OSM/osm-carto implementation
> and trend?

Something in that direction has already been discussed:

https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1957

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/