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

[Mathias Versichele]

According to me, the best solution would be to have two distinct tags: one
for population-size, and one for administrative level (stad, gemeente, dorp,
... but something conclusive). Then you could leave it up to the renderer to
choose between the two. But I guess it's a little too late to implement that
now. More in general, some of the tags in OSM are quite strange. For
example, I try to be consequent when choosing between residential roads and
unclassified ones, but there will always be a factor of subjectiveness...
Opinions?

2009/7/22 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>

> Alain Empain wrote:
> > Hello Mathias,
> >
> > indeed, the population size is not the best indication of the place
> > hierarchy.
>
> > It depends to what information we want to emphasize, but in my opinion,
> the
> > role of the city is more important that its population size
>
> So whether a place has city rights is a better indication of the place
> hierarchy? On one side you'd have Heist-op-den-Berg with a population of
> around 40000, but without city rights, and on the other side you'd have
> Mesen
> with 1000 inhabitants, but with city rights. So Mesen should show up as a
> more
> important place on the map because of its status as a city?
>
> Ben
>
>
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