[talk-au] Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size

[Andrew Davidson]

On 28/9/23 20:31, Michael Collinson wrote:
> Perhaps this apocryphal Ireland solution should be used? :-)
> 
> A house - building
> 
> A house and a church - hamlet
> 
> A house, a church and a pub - village
> 
> A house, a church and two pubs - town

I think your criteria may to strict :-)

I've been looking at SA because I was curious as to why there were so 
many "towns". Turns out that the threshold is very low:

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1BeG

In fact there were two "towns" in SA that had a population of *zero* at 
the last census.