[OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

[John Smith]

On 25 June 2011 06:02, Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 24-6-2011 4:25, Robin Paulson wrote:
>>
>> mappers in NZ have recently imported a lot of grass airstrips into
>> OSM. it appears the airstrips only render at zoom 10 on the mapnik
>> render of the map at osm.org, which looks like this:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.243&lon=175.014&zoom=10&layers=M
>>
>> is there any particular reason for this, osm.org map maintainer?
>
> No, not at all, except that it can be considered a bug. There hadn't been
> many airstrips tagged before this import happened, and only now is it
> plainly obvious the zooms are buggy for them.

Wasn't there some discussion about that before, how important airports
such as LAX should show sooner than regional airports which should
show up sooner than grass airstrips.