[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 24, 2024, 17:55 by fernando.trebien at gmail.com:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> tagging at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
> > Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages.
>
> McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in Antarctica, has been mapped as place=town since 2009, then briefly as place=hamlet from 2012 to 2015, and then place=town again since 2015 with a brief edit war trying to map it as place=city. Should this be fixed?
>
in my opinion yes, but I am not willing to invest time to convince people or edit it
(there is a lot of more obvious changes that should be done, I am cleaning some 
vandalism right now, this is at most dubious tagging for renderer - and far far less
obvious than many other I have seen)

(at least it is not tagged as place=city)

>
> > No people live there permanently.
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> There is a permanent civilian population in the Chilean Villa Las Estrellas and another in the Argentinian Fortín Sargento Cabral (Esperanza Base). 
>
Interesting. I was trying to dig into it and found more conflicted info.
(it seems that population is year-round there but specific people are not living there
permanently and this places are setup to increase strength of territorial claims)

> And then there are the so-called 
> “permanent” research stations, staffed year-round, never empty, but which rotate staff regularly. I think these stations qualify as settlements and should not be treated as collections of empty structures. They can be seen as temporary workplaces, similar to ports or mines, which, despite not even having a "population" staying overnight, still influence decisions about highway classification.
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I agree.

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