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

Andrew wynndale at lavabit.com
Thu May 27 22:35:18 BST 2010


Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at ...> writes:

> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:28 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe)
> <liste at ...> wrote:
> >
> > Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to
> > hopefully try to create a consistent database
> 
> I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary. Using
> population=* achieves the same goal.
> 

There are two serious flaws with using  population=*. The first is that you have
to put in populations for absolutely everywhere; the normal OSM practice of
leaving unresearched attributes blank frustrates any application using explicit
populations. The second is that the area to take the population of is often
ill-defined and may vary depending on the context.

--
Andrew








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