<div dir="ltr">I continue to oppose the proposal at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Places" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/India:Places</a> because it can lead to classifications that are significantly different from com<span id="goog_774667960"></span><span id="goog_774667961"></span>mon usage. Hence it will make the map less useful to users. For instance the proposal that the classification of 'village' should be used only for panchayats will often promote a smaller settlement and hide larger settlements. There will also be a disparity in usage across the country. <br><br>There is an adequate classification at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place</a> which accords largely with common usage. <br><br>The government classification could however be attached to the node (or the boundary if available) with a specific key that reflects its administration status - e.g. GOIClassification=xxx. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 August 2016 at 16:36, Yogesh K S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yogesh@itforchange.net" target="_blank">yogesh@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bringing this back again since there was no clear acceptance on the<br>
classification of Indian places[1] from last discussion some years<br>
back[2]. I can see that many small towns are tagged as cities in some<br>
states[3]. And the List of Cities in India entry on enwiki is by<br>
population which seems to be incomplete[4].<br>
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If there is a lack of consensus on classification proposal made on the<br>
OpenStreetMap wiki India page, we can discuss or else use the same as<br>
accepted one.<br>
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[1]<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Places" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/India:Places</a><br>
[2]<a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2012-May/thread.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/pipermail/<wbr>talk-in/2012-May/thread.html</a><br>
[3]<a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/hYb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/<wbr>hYb</a><br>
[4]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:List_of_cities_in_India" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/en:List_of_cities_in_<wbr>India</a><br>
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yogi<br>
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