[Talk-ca] 'Place=' tag for special municipalities?

[simon at mungewell.org]

Hi Sam,

> Hi Simon and everyone else on this list.
>
> I use POI Factories locations for my across canada trails map.
> http://www.poi-factory.com/node/51

Interesting link and probably a good checking reference. They don't state
any licensing terms though....

> However, from actually cycling through those towns, .. I think Coleman
> would be more of a town, as it has a bike shop, but Blairemore has a Tim
> Hortons.

You must have been through relatively recently (the Tim Horton's is a new
addition - I prefer Stone's Throw Cafe ;-)

The point I was trying to make is that the Alberta government have a
classification for each of the communities, which can be seen in the
census data. Most places are classified to be a city, town, village or
hamlet depending on their current (or historical) size.

However some areas like Crowsnest Pass are 'special'. From an
adminstration point of view Crowsnest Pass is treated as a group, instead
of being 5 seperate communities.

I suppose I could just phone the MD and ask about the population for each....

> ... and to be 'Frank', Frank used to be a town but got barried under a
> land slide, so out of respect for it, the area remains named as a town..
> even though it looks like a rest-stop.   .... so what is your answer?

Frank is 'alive and kicking', albeit displaced slightly west after the
Frank Slide incident. In fact a couple of years ago we had a big power
outage and I remember driving into a very dark Pass, the only light on was
the Frank Liquor Store which was doing very good business.

Cheers,
Simon