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

[Andrew Davidson]

On 29/9/23 20:22, Warin wrote:

> I did meet some English 4WD world travellers that had a world map. In the 
> north west corner of Australia was Carnegie on that map .. it is a 
> cattle station, has fuel and might do some food if you ask. It is a fair 
> way to the next places with fuel. It was on their map so they went. Such 
> is the power of 'filling in the blank spaces'.

It is interesting to look at world maps and looking at what gets put in 
for Australia compared to elsewhere. Check out this 1957 Nat Geo maps 
and see how many of the AU place names you even recognise:

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-548412715/view

Trida? Not even in OSM.