[OSM-talk] How do we specify relative importance of features across all types of features?

[Nic Roets]

2009/6/2 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

> El Martes, 2 de Junio de 2009, Jonathan Bennett escribió:
> > Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> > > Any comments?
> >
> > "Important to who?"
>
> And important for what?
>

Well, if you are drawing a map then you want to know if something is
important for navigation. Like a landmark.

It is of course possible to estimate (with a computer) how important
something is by analyzing the road network around it. Sometimes importance
follows roads and sometimes roads follow importance, but the correlation is
clear.
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