[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

[David Earl]

On 16/01/2008 11:19, Martin Trautmann wrote:
> 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 - 

Well, possibly, but as I said I wasn't aware of the proposal and had 
just been doing it.

> and I
> feel that a population has to be accompanied whenever possible by a valid
> date.

*has to be*? There's no 'has to be' about anything in OSM. It might be 
desirable, but it

> 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

Nonsense.

population=1234
population_date=2001

would do fine.

> 
> <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 but you won't know whether this number is outdated by a day, a month or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.

The same applies to all the data on the map, including post boxes, pub 
names and so on. Even roads (especially roads known about but under 
construction at the time of mapping).

David