[OSM-talk] Comprehensiveness or level of detail rating

[Josh Doe]

I think it makes sense to have several rating systems, this is
specific for an individual road, but we can also have one for trails,
another for POIs, etc, and yet another for country-level details. For
example, the Philippines wiki project created a level of detail rating
for the whole country, which accounts for all geographical features.

I've created a wiki page for this, which includes my rough ratings and
a link to the Philippine LoD page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Level_of_detail

-Josh

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM, pecisk at gmail.com <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/5/6 Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com>:
>> Has anyone discussed the creation of a comprehensiveness or level of
>> detail rating? What I mean by this is different from a quality rating
>> or metric, as that is a very difficult task which entails comparison
>> against "authoritative" sources or some other process, and different
>> from the general definition of completeness which measures what
>> percentage of real world objects of type X exist in the OSM database.
>
> I'm think about this all the time for almost a year, especially when
> going out for mapping. I fully agree that we need something like this,
> because because it is hard to grasp all data at once when mapping, and
> better have first level's high quality data than average to low data
> for all levels.
>
> Your detail ratings make sense, but I would also add POI there.
> Combined with roads it would be good starting block for measuring
> quality and asserting need of additional mapping.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>