How about this? http://www.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/web_aria/aria/aria.html a remoteness index for Australia http://www.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/products_services/ariav2_about.html
You could invent a 'townyness' metric based on the product of the variables of the settlement's population and its remoteness... :) jim On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Sam Couter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Should we tag rural towns and localities as significant centres to >> accurately reflect their role in the surrounding area, even when they have >> a low population? >> >> + Yes, Some towns have very low population counts, but are very significant >> administrative and service centres to the surrounding communities. They >> are a real towns, and not just localities. We should reflect this reality >> on the map with the place= tag. > > You're asking people to make a subjective judgement here. This will vary > greatly and cause arguments that can't really be settled. > >> Population data shouldn't be entered at all.. It just extra information to >> get out of date, and it can be obtained elsewhere. Lets focus on what OSM >> does best, mapping to reflect the reality on the ground. > > Population count is reality, and it's objective and hard to argue with. > > A compromise may be to note the population in the shire/county rather > than just within the town itself. This often reflects its importance in > the region. And of course the renderer may become smart enough to > consider smaller places more important when they're a long way from > other places. > -- > Sam Couter | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkk2Vf0ACgkQhTADrt6Jx1w1HACcDNZ5cNRramKYWy3em1AMgq0F > MjYAnRWbUTSkxzsYO0YOmdzAdD2KZgYW > =zBXc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > -- _________________ Jim Croft ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ +61-2-62509499 "Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality." - Joseph Conrad, author (1857-1924) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
