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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/01/19 12:16, Graeme Fitzpatrick
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:19, Martin
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> On 23. Jan 2019, at 22:35, Paul Allen <<a
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> According to the wiki, they're not<br>
> based on services either. <br>
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if the wiki says it explicitly like this we should fix it.<br>
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<div>Just looking & it's a mixture, & also a bit of a
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<div>=city: <span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">the largest
settlement or settlements within a territory</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">=town: </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">an important
urban centre ... </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">normally
have a good range of shops and facilities which are used
by people from nearby villages.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">=village: </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">A settlement
with between 1,000 and 10,000 inhabitants</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">=hamlet: </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">an isolated
settlement, typically with less than 100-200 inhabitants</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">=isolated_dwelling: </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">the smallest
kind of human settlement. They are outside other
settlements ... </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">must not
consist of more than 2 households</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">=locality: </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">an
unpopulated location (but the example photo is of an
inhabited village!)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">I
would suggest we remove all reference to number of
inhabitants, & base the decision on each mappers own
recognition of how "important" this place is, so an
isolated "village" with only a few hundred people in it,
but which is the main centre for this area will be a town,
& maybe even a city?</span></div>
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No, the population size is a handy guide and should be kept - as a
guide. May add the word 'typically' where it is missing? <br>
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<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">I'm
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A problem is that the British have a system .. based on old
definitions - using things like cathedrals to help define their
definitions. <br>
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On 'one set of rules' is going to match world wide. The number of
pubs may be a useful criteria in Australia, but not in Morocco. <br>
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The document needs to be a guide .. not a 'rule'. <br>
One guide should be that surrounding places must be relative in
level of important to the place that is being mapped. I don't think
a place with no post office can be more important than a place with
a post office in the same area. <br>
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