[OSM-talk] US City Import?

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On Nov 23, 2007 11:36 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> beej wrote:
>  >
>  > Another question... I use the stock definitions of the city sizes,
> also, regarding actual census population data:  i think that shouldn't
> be in OSM.  OSM should be for geographical and navigational data.

I disagree. Population data is useful for scaling cities on the map,
and for deciding which cities to show on the map at low zoom. Census
data is the best source of this data.