[OSM-talk] City categories and wikipedia links

Robert Hart Robert.Hart at BuroHappold.com
Mon Feb 12 22:57:18 GMT 2007


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> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
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> Sent: 12 February 2007 19:13
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> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] City categories and wikipedia links
> 
> City names now get imported from OSM, so click the "Update tags" link
if
> your
> local town has the wrong name.
> 
> e.g. http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?id=360 "??" becomes "Pyrmont"
> 
> This should also let people fix any unicode names that got mangled
when
> they
> were originally imported.
> 

How does it decide what area constitutes a place? Bath is quite small
for a city, so seems to come off worse in the "interesting" stakes than
some suburbs of other places.

Rob



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