[Tagging] Proposed feature : World wide place=* standardisation only based on population

[Simone Saviolo]

2010/5/27 sly (sylvain letuffe) <liste at letuffe.org>:
> Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to
> hopefully try to create a consistent database and not a renderer work around
> font label positionning system

-1, if it's exclusively population-based. The risk is that the US have
tenths of cities and smaller countries - say, dunno, Uganda - get
none.

It's not a matter of getting the label to look cool. If you are
looking for objective data, then tag the population. The definition of
"city" and its differences from "town" varies from culture to culture,
and from country to country. In the last few days there has been quite
some discussion in talk-it about this, and there was consensus that
the tagging of cities should somehow convey an idea about the urban
texture of the country.

> sly

Regards,

Simone