[OSM-talk-be] place=city, place=town

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:58:14PM +0200, Mathias Versichele wrote:
> Am I the only one that thinks it's a little 'artificial' to base the
> difference between a 'place=city' and 'place=town' on the population
> (>100.000 and <100.000 resp.) ? Right now a lot of cities (one example:
> Dendermonde) are tagged as towns, which doesn't combine well with the
> administrative reality...

The problem with using population to base that on is Brussels
has 145K and that Schaarbeek has 113K.  And you don't want
Schaarbeek to be shown as big as Brussels.

For population lists see:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Belgische_gemeenten_naar_inwonertal
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Belgische_steden_(naar_inwoneraantal)

There doesn't seem to be a French or English page that has the
same info.

The second list contains our official cities, and they have
combined everything of the Brussels-Captital Region in 1 number
there.


Kurt