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

[Richard Symonds]

I see your problem... could you tell me how exactly you define the
hierarchy at the moment? Is it ad-hoc, with various rules in different
areas etc?

Perhaps it would be better to, instead of having a hierarchy based on
definitions, instead having a hierarchy based on pure population size. If
this gives odd results, then perhaps you could have a "booster value" if
the town is used as a post town or a seat of local government (for example).

I worry that trying to define terms like "village" or "town" is doomed to
failure, because very few will agree on what it means, no matter how much
we try ;-)


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On 14 September 2015 at 15:08, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 14/09/15 14:23, 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?
>
> The obvious answer is that unless one adds some sort of filter it will
> get counted twice? Once as a town and once as a village. There should
> only be one place entry in OSM or so the
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place?uselang=en-GB says. I'm not
> sure but adding a second place tag should not work I think. Place is
> part of the hierarchy of a location on OSM, so having it appear as both
> a town and village would be confusing on searches.
>
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