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

[Andrew Davidson]

On 2/10/23 12:52, Little Maps wrote:
> Hi again, fyi. I was curious to see how variable city/town tags were in 
> relation to population. About 1500 places spread around Aus have a 
> population tag according to an Overpass Turbo search. 

You were a little too quick for me, I didn't have time to put them all 
in. I've done all of the village/town/cities that I could line up with 
the appropriate ABS UCL (or for some the appropriate mesh blocks). I 
have not included places that are inside another place or places that 
the ABS give a hyphenated name where it's not obvious which place node 
to put the population on.

You can view them on a map:

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhl cities
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhm towns
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhp villages

Looks like Victoria is the home of city-flation.

>     Using Ockham’s razor, the simplest (best?) approach would be to
>     start super simple and then see what we’re missing. For example, map
>     all locations using population (or proxy) and then overlay presence
>     / absence of hospitals, schools, etc and see where and how often
>     anomalies occur, and then discuss how to deal with these. There may
>     not be many. Otherwise we end up debating local issues only, like
>     the merits of the Windorah coffee shop, which doesn’t get us far imo.

Whatever people come up with it's got to be:

1. Simple to apply
2. Verifiable ie: other mappers need to be able to come to the same 
conclusion
3. Consistent with the principle of least surprise