[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

[Tony Bowden]

Martin Trautmann wrote:
> 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 but you won't know whether this number is outdated by a day, a month or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.

Both of these seem to be unnecessarily overcomplicating the issue.

We're not trying to become some sort of definitive source for population 
data. And such data is fundamentally unsuited for this level of 
precision anyway. Beyond the tiny village where everyone knows anyone 
else, population counts are always estimates and out of date. In some 
cities the range of values being thrown around span millions of people 
(Lagos for example).

AIUI there is no proposal to be doing anything with this data other than 
giving rendering hints. If so, then there's no real problem with either 
out of date data or crude estimates. And, when better data is available, 
it's trivial to change it.

Tony