[talk-au] cities changed to towns

[David]

Mind you, this 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Victoria,_Australia

Tells us that cities need at least 50,000 people, i guess Victoria is special.

Seriously, i don't think a hard number only test is very appropriate. 

David

Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>>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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