[OSM-talk] US City Import?

[Paul Fox]

beej wrote:
 > 
 > Another question... I use the stock definitions of the city sizes, 
 > currently:
 > 
 > hamlet < 100  (I made this up--page says "a few" houses)

i don't think i've ever seen the term "hamlet" applied to a
community in the US.  i'd think "settlement", or "community".
maybe someone else can think of another term.

 > village < 10000
 > town < 100000
 > city >= 100000
 > 
 > This means that nothing in Montana, for instance, will be a "city". 
 > Should the city sizes be uniform over the whole US, or should I scale 
 > them in each state?  I'm for uniform, since things might look really 
 > weird on a state boundary.

uniform, definitely.

also, regarding actual census population data:  i think that shouldn't
be in OSM.  OSM should be for geographical and navigational data.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 21.7 degrees)