[Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

[Yogesh K S]

On 08/27/2016 09:45 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Devdatta Tengshe <devdatta at tengshe.in
> <mailto:devdatta at tengshe.in>> wrote:
>
>     This link gives the criteria:
>
>     http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf
>     <http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf>
>
>     For a town, the population criteria is quite small. To be called a
>     town, it should meet all the following criteria:
>     1)Population exceeds 5,000
>     2)At least 75% of male working population is employed outside the
>     agricultural sector
>     3)Minimum population density of 400 persons per km
>
> Thanks Devdatta. It makes sense to have the place classification
> follow some kind of mapping to Census classification for consistency.
> Population should not be used as the only defining property to
> classify a place. We already have the `population` tag to record this
> value.

This is quite complex than I thought but it does makes sense to follow
Census classification. For now, I've added list of references for
classifying the places and shared this on
forum(http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=606639) too for
anymore responses.


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