[OSM-talk] Mapnik: strange prioritisation/appearance of place names

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Tue Mar 24 10:43:57 GMT 2009


2009/3/24 Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net>:
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> David Earl wrote:
>> On 23/03/2009 12:13, Adam Schreiber wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla
>>> <elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is
>>>> always able to select the proper item to print would be excellent, but
>>>> also probably not feasible in real life.
>>> Population?  People can vote importance with their feet.
>>
>> Population's not enough. Some places "punch above their weight" - the
>> example I like to use is Hay-on-Wye in Powys. It's under 2,000 people
>> but is most clearly an important market town for the surrounding area.
>> In population it would be a modest village, but it is more important
>> than that.
>
> Or, the more extreme case of London.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Extent
> "The City of London is ... the second *smallest* British city in both
> population and size, after St David's in Wales."


To even more complicate that one the population of the City varies
somewhat. Only about 8000 people actually live there, but during a
week day it contains about 500,000 people. So it's clearly a pretty
important place to be, but a crap place to live.

Dave




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