[talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

Hi, I came across Quobba Station and Canarvon where Canarvon is a 'village' and Quobba Station is a 'town'. I know Canarvon is larger than Quobba Station! So I re-tagged Quobba Station as 'village'. But I wondered on it.. so looked up the OSMwiki .. not much help... the Australian tagging g

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

> On 03 May 2016, at 14:22, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why judge on the population? > Larger populations get more services - Police, Medical, Education ... they go > hand in hand. > Populations are usually stated - on the entry signs to towns, villages .. and > collected

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

>From what you have written, I think you are probably right to change classificaiton of Quobba Station to village rather than town. In regard to smaller rural centres, I have also been wondering about classifications. In South Australia, some rural properties constitute their own official locat

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

On 4/05/2016 12:50 AM, Christopher Barham wrote: On 03 May 2016, at 14:22, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com > wrote: Why judge on the population? Larger populations get more services - Police, Medical, Education ... they go hand in hand. Populations are usually

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

I’ve had an involvement in this discussion in the past and wonder if a way forward might be to include an adjusting factor for remoteness. If you have a look at the map at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/home/remoteness+structure which shows the Australian Remoteness Index this su

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

I'd make two comments. 1. Any attempt to make something render on sparse parts of the map, is a rendering issue. Any renderer is free to pre-process the data based on a population and remoteness algorithm if they wish. 2. Personally, I make anything a town if it has services. If it has a pub, a

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

On Wed, 4 May 2016 05:58:27 PM Alex Sims wrote: > The other point I’d make (as I did some time ago) is that the labels are > “British English” labels and form a hierarchy where the names make sense in > the UK but shouldn’t be taken as a slight against any area. They are merely > a series of words

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:10:35 AM Ian Sergeant wrote: > 1. Any attempt to make something render on sparse parts of the map, is > a rendering issue. Any renderer is free to pre-process the data based > on a population and remoteness algorithm if they wish. > > 2. Personally, I make anything a town if