[OSM-talk] osmarender slippy map rendering

Thomas Walraet thomas at walraet.com
Thu Apr 26 18:51:15 BST 2007


Abigail Brady a écrit :
> 
> A good algorithm for choosing appropriate placenames to go in a
> limited space will want, at least
> *population (not necessarily of the administrative area, but maybe the
> general metropolitan catchment area - Manchester beats Salford)
> *administrative significance (Winchester beats Basingstoke or Eastleigh)
> *formal status
> *historic importance (ie Newcastle beats Gateshead or Sunderland)
> *status as major transport hub (Dover beats Canterbury)

Another solution is to add a tag where we manually enter our perceived 
"importance" of a place, instead of adding more and more factors each 
time we encounter a new special case...




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