<div dir="ltr">I see your problem... could you tell me how exactly you define the hierarchy at the moment? Is it ad-hoc, with various rules in different areas etc?<div><br></div><div>Perhaps it would be better to, instead of having a hierarchy based on definitions, instead having a hierarchy based on pure population size. If this gives odd results, then perhaps you could have a "booster value" if the town is used as a post town or a seat of local government (for example).</div><div><br></div><div>I worry that trying to define terms like "village" or "town" is doomed to failure, because very few will agree on what it means, no matter how much we try ;-)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><span>Richard Symonds</span><div>Wikimedia UK</div><div>0207 065 0992</div><div><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="1">Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).</font></p><p style="margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><font size="1">Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.</font></b></p></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 September 2015 at 15:08, Lester Caine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk" target="_blank">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 14/09/15 14:23, Richard Symonds wrote:<br>
> Is there any reason that a place can't be both?<br>
> eg.<br>
> "defines self as=town"<br>
> "defines self as=village"<br>
> "defined by X as village"<br>
><br>
> Or the like?<br>
<br>
</span>The obvious answer is that unless one adds some sort of filter it will<br>
get counted twice? Once as a town and once as a village. There should<br>
only be one place entry in OSM or so the<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place?uselang=en-GB" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place?uselang=en-GB</a> says. I'm not<br>
sure but adding a second place tag should not work I think. Place is<br>
part of the hierarchy of a location on OSM, so having it appear as both<br>
a town and village would be confusing on searches.<br>
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