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

[Alexander Matheisen]

Am Dienstag, den 22.03.2016, 17:41 +0000 schrieb Philip Barnes:
> On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:29 +0000, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> > pon, 21. ožu 2016. u 23:28 Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> napisao je:
> > > 
> > > Almost 5 months of discussing and hand tweaking the algorithm
> > > tells
> > > me
> > > just having the hard (numerical) data might be not as easy as you
> > > depict
> > > it. Raw population data is far from having world-range city
> > > ranking
> > > we
> > > needed.
> > I wasn't talking about raw data like population. I was talking
> > about
> > the number of articles about cities. That means number of articles
> > in
> > different languages. I think it's a great way to see what the crowd
> > from around the world thinks is important.
> > 
> > For example, Bethlehem, the birth place of Jesus, has a population
> > of
> > 25 000 and 110 articles. A nearby city, Beit Shemesh, has a
> > population of 100 000 and 32 articles. I think that's a great way
> > to
> > decide which city to display on lower zooms. Even better, you could
> > add the length of text in all articles. An important city will
> > almost
> > always have more text than a less important one. And in the end,
> > add
> > population into the mix for good measure.
> > 
> > The same thing about peaks.
> > 
> > Transportation is probably not as present in Wikipedia, but I'm
> > sure
> > all the important airports have their articles.
> >  
> Every railway station seems to have a wikipedia page, even if is says
> no more than can be deduced by looking at it on OSM.

No, only some important stations have own wikipedia pages. For example
see the Tauern railway in Austria, an important north-south route
through the Alps. It is used by many freight trains and EuroCity long
distance trains.

But when you have a look at either the German article (
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauernbahn) or the English article (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauern_Railway), you will see that no
station on this line has an own article, although some stations are
served by EuroCity trains.


Regards
Alex
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