Translations:Proposal process/87/en
- Is it a destination in itself?
- People may search for some locations, for example: a national park, a bus station, a street address or a rubbish dump, because they want to visit that location.
- How many of the item do you think there will be in the world?
- For instance, you want to map an aero-engine factory - there are very few aero-engine factories in the world, so rather than creating a specific tag, this may be better served by using an existing man_made tag and specifying product=aero_engines.
- How large is the item?
- Large items can assist with navigation.
- Is it useful for research/study?
- A geography student may want to determine the total area of national parks in a given region.
- A sociology student may want to map correlation between number/location of Porsche dealerships and houses greater than 600 m2 in area.
- A history student may want to show the locations of all battles in a given war.
- Does it assist in route-planning?
- It is useful to know which junctions are traffic lights and which are roundabouts as this can affect journey times.
- Truck drivers need to know the maximum height allowed under bridges, or the maximum weight allowed through population centres.
- Traffic calming structures can affect journey times, routing software will generally not use roads with these on.
- Walkers would want to know surfaces/conditions of walking tracks.