<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">>I would want "place=city" to refer to an urban populated area of at least 100,000 people as per <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values</a><br>
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I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed places to match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet & village grate on me as words, they are merely "code" for an object to be mapped. It's only really issue because I speak English (Australian) and the OSM schema was developed in English (United Kingdom) that there is an issue. If we all spoke Finnish or Swahili we wouldn't be having this discussion now.<span class=""><font color="#888888"></font></span><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Ok, well what might be an obvious "error" to you is correct to someone else. There are many OSM tags that have different meanings in different parts of the world. It would be good to be consistent within Australia, but it's not important whether our meaning precisely matches the meaning in the UK or some other country.<br>
<br>Looking at the wiki page you cite, it's clear that those definitions are intended as rules of thumb: "Populations of villages vary widely in different territories but will
nearly always be less than 10,000 people, often a lot less."; "[Cities s]hhould normally have a population of at least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby towns." Normally, in densely populated areas, that is. Applying that cut off in Victoria would lead to only Melbourne and Geelong qualifying, with Bendigo and Ballarat just missing out. <br>
<br>Steve<br></div>