[OSM-talk] Advanced highway tagging

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 20, 2007 4:51 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the "zoom level" tag which I proposed, and which has already
> been criticized, it isn't really a strict tag telling the renderer to
> "render road X starting at zoom level Y" but rather a tag indicating
> the "relative importance" of the road, i.e. how important a road is
> relative to others in the area, so that minor roads in isolated areas
> are shown at low zoom levels but not all the arterial roads in Central
> London.

FWIW, the AND data has an importance level, but that's for relative
*routing* importance.

TBH, I get a little tired of the "the renderer is dumb" argument.
Sure, they're not smart now but they are just beginning. They will get
smarter... If we could come up with a way for the renderer to solve
your problem then the entire issue goes away...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/