[talk-au] cities changed to towns

[Steve Bennett]

>I would want "place=city" to refer to an urban populated area of at least
100,000 people as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values

>
> I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed places to
> match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet & village grate on me as
> words, they are merely "code" for an object to be mapped. It's only really
> issue because I speak English (Australian) and the OSM schema was developed
> in English (United Kingdom) that there is an issue. If we all spoke Finnish
> or Swahili we wouldn't be having this discussion now.
>

Ok, well what might be an obvious "error" to you is correct to someone
else. There are many OSM tags that have different meanings in different
parts of the world. It would be good to be consistent within Australia, but
it's not important whether our meaning precisely matches the meaning in the
UK or some other country.

Looking at the wiki page you cite, it's clear that those definitions are
intended as rules of thumb: "Populations of villages vary widely in
different territories but will nearly always be less than 10,000 people,
often a lot less."; "[Cities s]hhould normally have a population of at
least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby towns." Normally, in densely
populated areas, that is. Applying that cut off in Victoria would lead to
only Melbourne and Geelong qualifying, with Bendigo and Ballarat just
missing out.

Steve
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