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

[Alain Empain]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:50:26 +0200, 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 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?

I agree with Lennard and you : this solution puts the information at hand for later usage.

I am just curious about the importance of hierarchic centres, even small, on the basic infrastructure of historic mesh covering our old countries.
For instance, the persistency of old Roman roads (Romeinse Steenwegen) in our landscape stirred my imagination when I was young (I am born along the Bavai-Tongeren Roman path).

Regards,

Alain

> 
> 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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