[Tagging] Populated settlement classification

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

adding to what Christoph has explained, as we try to have globally
meaningful and comparable tags, I believe we should focus on functional
(which services + functions are present) and maybe cultural (how is the
place regionally seen/valued, which often has also to do with political and
historical significance) distinction between inhabited places, and give
less importance to population numbers.

As a maybe less important point, official population data can sometimes be
distorted because it usually counts registered inhabitants, not everybody
who lives in a place.

Cheers,
Martin
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