Hugh Barnes wrote: > Hi > > I entered some towns recently. I got stuck wondering whether they were > actually towns, villages, or hamlets. > > I think Australia applies different criteria to determine this designation. > If > you follow the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place, it > seems to allow a village to have up to 10,00 people! Can you see where this > is > going? That may be a small place in more populous countries, but I'd > certainly > call it a town. > > So remoteness seems to count for something. > > Any other criteria you can think of? > I was doing the same thing last night - playing around with "towns" like Daly Waters, Wiluna, Fitzroy Crossing and a few others in the middle of WA. Most of these places probably only have a couple of hundred residents, but they are also the only towns for some considerable distance (I think the next town to Wiluna is Newman - probably > 100 km away.
This is me dreaming, cos I know sweet fa about the mapnik rendering process, but what would be cool would be some process where a town/village/hamlet is rendered at higher zooms based on the distance to the next closest town/village/hamlet - that way, Wiluna would get rendered at zoom 6 or 8, making it actually possible to find on the map visually. (As a excercise for the reader, try locating it now - use the osmarender tiles - it's not that easy.) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
