[Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

[Colin Smale]

No reason whatsoever.... but how do you determine what a place calls
itself? What the Parish Council puts on the "village" sign -> according
to the PC. What the population maps to according to some algorithm ->
according to the author of the algorithm. 

On 2015-09-14 15:23, Richard Symonds wrote: 

> Is there any reason that a place can't be both? 
> eg. 
> "defines self as=town" 
> "defines self as=village" 
> "defined by X as village" 
> 
> Or the like? 
> 
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> On 14 September 2015 at 14:20, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 14/09/15 13:02, SK53 wrote:
>>> On the other hand finding a way to access population figures to places
>>> for data consumers is useful. Directly adding population values may work
>>> in Britain where population change is relatively slow, so slowly
>>> outdated data is still useful, but is risky in other parts of the world.
>>> At the very lease also add a link to wikipedia/wikidata as well, which
>>> ultimately should obviate having to maintain population values
>> 
>> That is precisely where I started ;)
>> Or rather adding the wikipedia link ...
>> 
>> The problem is that even coverage in wikipedia is far from complete so
>> one finds erratic quality of information. Additionally wikidata is still
>> at an early stage and does not have the bulk of the information already
>> in wikipedia, so someone has to go through and change all the
>> information blocks around or add missing ones where needed :(
>> 
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