On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 21:05, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
Way back in the thread you wrote: > >>> OSM does not distinguish between the sizes of other thing other than > by using the area or a closed way, or dimensional tags. > To which I responded: >> place=islet vs place=island > And I later responded: > place=hamlet, place=village, place=town, place=city. > > Those are based on population and services, not on land area Those aren't based upon population. If they were, you could just specify population=n without having to use place=village (or whatever). According to the wiki, they're not based on services either. According to the wiki, the mapper has to choose the one appropriate based upon the population (if known) and I'm guessing most mappers do their own thing based on place name/local usage/whim/phase of the moon. Whatever basis a mapper uses to decide whether to tag as hamlet or village, etc. it is NOT based upon area and only loosely based (if that) upon a population size (which the mapper may not know). Which kind of refutes what you wrote much earlier (see above, but I'll paste it here anyway) >>> OSM does not distinguish between the sizes of other thing other than by > using the area or a closed way, or dimensional tags. > My point stands. OSM distinguishes between the sizes of localities (in order to render them differently at different zooms) by a means that is not an area or a dimension. The choice of hamlet/village/etc. is supposedly related to population size but only loosely, especially when some mappers take the number and type of available services into account as well as (or instead of) the population. -- Paul
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