Christoph Hormann

I am not quite sure if i understand where your sketch is meant to go. You seem to re-frame the feature column into a coarser classification, which requires you to...

> All the starting zoom information is in the Postgres table(s), No, according to your sketch it is not - as i have already indicated. With the polygon size dependent...

> As far as I could tell, the starting zoom usually just depends on a single way_pixel cutoff? For the landcover and water polygon labels that is correct. `way_pixels` of...

As mentioned before i don't really see the reasoning behind the complex data structures you generate. All that is needed to solve this issue is: * developing a designer-friendly way...

`healthcare:speciality=osteopathy` has 1770 uses, almost all of them in Europe, almost half of them in France. No documentation on the OSM wiki. `healthcare=alternative` has 15.5k uses and is mostly used...

> So my proposal wouldn't be to render all healthcare=alternative entries, since that tag covers a huge range of facilities of even bigger varying importance, but possibly to render just...

Regarding misuse as a generic importance rating - the only verifiable criterion for tagging tracktype that is either known or documented is 'softness' of the ground - which is a...

@TiliaJ - off-topic here, but i suggest to look at [Verifiability](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability).

Updated numbers on this: * `tracktype` on `highway=track`: 8.6M * `surface` on `highway=track`: 6.8M * both: 3.7M

@cdauth - what the best way is to map certain properties of roads/paths is not a subject for this issue tracker. Your desire to more precisely map practically important properties...