Re: [openrailwaymap] Station importance

Hi, I also wanted to note that "international" is a bad category (Hannover is a good example). Good that you already changed it, but I still think the criteria are too much based on territories. I think we should go more in that "dominance" direction, in particular, we need to get rid of the "Bahnhofskategorie" thinking. This is a categorization scheme that rather aims at a station's traveler infrastructure, not its relative significance. One example where your suggestion is too close to that Bahnhofskategorie thinking: I don't see any difference between "suburban" and "local", except where they are. This is not important for the aim of this categorization. Also, we'd need some way to differentiate Basel Bad Bf from Basel SBB, Berlin/München Hbf from Ostbahnhof, København C from Nørreport. In each of these examples, both mentioned stations have international traffic, but one is definitly to be displayed at a lower zoom level than the other. There's another problem that has not been mentioned yet: The scheme is only aimed at railway networks, but we would want such a system for underground networks, too, for example. And also for airports and bus stops [1]. (Note that the importance of stations from different systems is not strictly hierarchical: I would want to see an important underground exchange station at a lower zoom level than some regional train stop; and some important bus node earlier than a small underground stop.) I'm thinking about a how to define a scheme that can cover all of this, but I want to go to bed now, so I'll do that tomorrow, but already send this mail to avoid people considering the discussion over ;) Marian [1] Yes, that lies outside the scope of openrailmap, but there's the same problem when rendering a transit map, so we should develop a solution that fits them all.