[Tagging] importance=* tag (for transportation etc)

[Chris Hill]

On 18/03/16 17:38, Daniel Koć wrote:
> I have just read on WeeklyOSM that OpenRailwayMap may start to use 
> importance=* tag for ranking railway stations instead of 
> railway:station_category=* :
>
> http://lists.openrailwaymap.org/archives/openrailwaymap/2016-March/000408.html 
>
>
> The proposition is 7 years old:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Importance
>
> and is quite generic. I think it would help for example with rendering 
> airports without resorting to less clear properties like size:
>
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1734
>
> and it would be good to have universal scheme instead of 
> railway:station_category=* or flights_range=*. Looks like it is being 
> already used and quite popular:
>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/importance
>
> What do you think about making this scheme official?
>
There are no official tags. Only tags that are used and / or documented.

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Cheers, Chris (chillly)