[OSM-talk] tagging and rendering

[Cartinus]

On Monday 12 May 2008 11:50:15 elvin ibbotson wrote:
> If, for  
> example, the feature types were structured using a numerical system  
> such that  so that all natural features began with 0, all highways  
> with 1, etc, but everything needed at scales smaller than 5 ended  
> with numbers smaller than 3 (eg. coastlines: 01; trunk roads: 12) I  
> could make a simple call for features less than *3.

Like already pointed out before:

This only works if your idea of important is the same as the idea of important 
of the ones that did the initial ordering. However for a motorist a motorway 
is the most important road, for a cyclist a cycleway is the most important 
road and for a canal boater roads are not important at all.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus