[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

[Martin Trautmann]

In-Reply-To: <478DE0A8.9030301 at frankieandshadow.com>

On 2008-01-16 10:47, David Earl wrote:
> Irrespective of this proposal, which I hadn't noticed, I've been using
> it for all places in my area for some time now

I do not see any description about the syntax within the proposal - and I
feel that a population has to be accompanied whenever possible by a valid
date.

Thus I feel it is not possible to add a pouplation tag directly to a
place.  Apart from node, way and area this would require yet another  data
primitive, such as data


<tag k="place" v="village">
<tag k="place_name" v="SC-Village">
<data=12345>
<data=123444>
...


<data id=12345>
  <tag k="population" v="123">
  <tag k="date"       v="2007-12-31"
  <tag k="precision"  v="1">

<data id=123444>
  <tag k="population" v="100">
  <tag k="date"       v="1990"
  <tag k="precision"  v="10">

precision could be v={1|10|100|h|1000|k|10000|10k|100000|100k|1000000|M|1M}>


Whenever you have just a single number, this should be the current value -
but you won't know whether this number is outdated by a day, a month or
many years.


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