[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

[David Earl]

Irrespective of this proposal, which I hadn't noticed, I've been using 
it for all places in my area for some time now - over 100 villages in 
South Cambridgeshire are tagged. I suspect I not the only one. I am 
tempted to say this is a de facto map feature and add it to the list anyway.

I think this is information that is usefully in the map data not as a 
source of background information (where it would be more appropriately 
linked to) but because it can inform map rendering - remember the 
discussion we had recently (thread starts at 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-November/020261.html 
) about what constitutes villages, towns and cities - Bedford and 
Cambridge are much the same size, but one is a town; villages of a few 
thousand are treated the same as those of a few hundred and so on 
Renderers can adjust caption sizes or other symbols based on population 
if it wants to if the info is available.

David

On 16/01/2008 01:45, Robin Paulson wrote:
> does anyone know what's happening with this tag?
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Population
> 
> it appears to have been voted on, but it isn't really clear what, the
> tags were only added after voting had completed. i think it's rejected
> (11 yes to one no), but the last comment implies not. also, there are
> lots of questions in the comments that are unanswered. anyone? it
> wasn't announced on talk
> 
> personally, i think this is a good candidate for data to include in
> wikipedia and link to with some sort of on-screen tag, as has been
> discussed recently
> 
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