[talk-au] Filling in blank space (Was Re: Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size)

[Bob Cameron]

A lady served me a burger and coffee at Windorah Roadhouse. I think I 
remember the supermarket also had some limited fast food. I had a sit 
down feed at the pub in a prior visit.

Was eaten alive by mozzies at Stonehenge (Qld) pub. The visitors centre 
there (also a RTC and small supermarket) did coffee and cake. Last visit 
there was a fly-in RFDS clinic in progress. Their plane was parked at 
the airstrip.

Stayed at the Stonehenge farm (stay) in Vic near Bruthen. There is an 
odd sight of 2 vans and a station wagon stacked on an inverted "U" frame 
there.

I use Healthdirect for occasional hospital/chemist lookups. Activity on 
FB walls is a far more accurate measure of other major use current 
services. There is a lot of old data out there and dated references are 
sorely needed. I have tagged a few RFDS clinic sites.

I tend to do mass data filterings in my head rather than rely on a 
summary spiel. I seriously think that presenting summary info as an OSM 
object is not a good idea and should be left to the data consumer to 
calculate for a given area. A population qty tag would be one of inputs. 
The concept of (size/services) hamlets, towns etc might even be dropped? 
IMO of course!

On 1/10/23 21:16, Warin wrote:
>
> Most useful to most, most of the time? Pubs? Source of refreshments 
> and information. Maybe there should be a tag for pub population?
>
> Windorah has one. Is the blind fellow still serving in the petrol 
> station?
>
> Only one Pub in Stonehenge .. Queensland. The one in Tassie is a farm 
> .. no pubs etc.
>
>
> Today medical services are scares. Might even have to list the regular 
> RFDS visits as being useful to some. Easier to find wielders .. the 
> bigger outback stations have them, oil/gas fields have mobile ones.
>
>
> I did have to look up Birdun Northern Territory, most of the others 
> I've either been to or been past at some time. Somewhere I have a tee 
> shirt from Rabbit Flat (no longer there) and Giles (no longer allowed 
> to sell them)...
>