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

[Lennard]

Mathias Versichele wrote:
> 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 

It's never too late to implement, and I can only recommend to use the 
population=* tag whenever you have that info. It's a chicken and egg 
problem, but don't let that stop you from putting it in the db.

On the places overlay openfietskaart.nl / openwandelkaart.nl I already 
render place=town with population between 50000 and 99999 starting at 
the same zoom level as cities.

> 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?

If it's not plain obvious to you at first sight, it's unclassified.

Streets, especially outside towns, with just a single house or even a 
few houses, on a road that's many kilometers long, just isn't residential.

My 2 cents, anyway.


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Lennard