On 14/09/15 00:41, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/09/15 00:16, Lester Caine wrote: > >> The OSM wiki defines 'hamlet' as less than 100-200 people, but village >> supposedly starts at 1000 up to 10000 with the proviso that it depends >> on the country. Ideally the two would perhaps meet :) We are perhaps >> looking at a population of around 8000 for a town designation in the UK, >> but anything down to 100 is still classified as a village by the ONS. >> What are actually missing from the OSN data are ANY hamlets despite >> their claiming to include them. > > Please don't try and draw bright lines based on population, and > certainly don't try and mass edit things based on that. It's much more > subjective than that. > > Nobody would ever have described the place where I grew up as anything > other than a town, but we always used to reckon on a population of > around 3000 people (wikipedia says 5627 as of the 2011 census) and > certainly 8000 sounds very high to me. > > Equally there were surrounding villages that aren't that much smaller > but which lack things like a High Street and really wouldn't be > described as towns - basically places which had historically been > smaller but had acquired housing in the second half of the 20th century > without necessarily growing in other ways.
I've no intention of changing anything, just add in missing material, but it would be nice to have a consistent set of guide lines for the UK. Rather than the simplistic view Facebook applies ... every hamlet, village and town is a city :) I'm just looking to keep a consistent use of what is well documented data and ensure we same numbers everywhere. But to be honest I see no need to add 'population' to OSM. The wikipedia link gives a lot more than just that ... if the wikipedia page is right. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
