[OSM-talk] voting ended? - population

[Martin Trautmann]

In-Reply-To: <478DF749.8020505 at tmtm.com>

On 2008-01-17 01:23, Tony Bowden wrote:
> 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 but you won't know whether this number is outdated by a day, a month or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.

Yes, I agree. It sounds far too complicated.

Concerning KISS, someone should add some info to the proposal whether you
are aware that any numbers here are not for exact reference then, but just
for giving a possibly outdated and rough estimation of size.

> 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 out of date data or crude estimates.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.

Is it a sufficient key for rendering?

Whether something got the status of a town or not may differ from country
to country.

In Germany, you may change the status from about 5000 inhabitants on
("small town", Kleinstadt: 5 000 .. 20 000). From 100 000 on it's called
Großstadt (city). In Switzerland it takes at least 10 000 inhabitants for a town, in Austria
it may be as low as 4500. Once you got the status of a town, you might
keep it. There's a German town named Arnis, which got about 300
inhabitants only.

So maybe the number of inhabitants is the even better value for rendering
- but the result may be different than your expectation is.


- Martin
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