Hi I disagree, I believe the greater than 100,000 test is not applicable within Australia.
OSM Wiki says a city is: The largest urban settlements in the territory, normally including the national, state and provincial capitals. These are defined by charter or other governmental designation in some territories and are a matter of judgement in others. Should normally have a population of at least 100,000 people and be larger than nearby townsAll of these apply to those places previously mentioned : 1) largest urban settlements in the territory 2) defined by charter 3) larger than nearby towns. The one 'rule' that these places fail is >100,000 inhabitants - however the wiki guide text is prefaced by the word 'normally'. Taken with the Australian tagging rules page that says you may 'promote' regional centres, I think it is fair to tag these as cities. Chas On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Alex Sims <a...@softgrow.com> wrote: > On 11/12/2012 6:06 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > >> Ok, but I don't think we should get hung up on the coincidence between >> the Australian official meaning of "city" and the tag "place=city". (By >> coincidence, I mean, if we happened to speak some other language, obviously >> there'd be no official designation of "city".) >> >> So...what do we want place=city to refer to? >> > I would want "place=city" to refer to an urban populated area of at least > 100,000 people as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/** > wiki/Key:place#Values<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values> > > I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed places to > match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet & village grate on me as > words, they are merely "code" for an object to be mapped. It's only really > issue because I speak English (Australian) and the OSM schema was developed > in English (United Kingdom) that there is an issue. If we all spoke Finnish > or Swahili we wouldn't be having this discussion now. > > Alex > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-au<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au> > -- ---- cbar...@pobox.com
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