Is there any reason that a place can't be both? eg. "defines self as=town" "defines self as=village" "defined by X as village"
Or the like? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 14 September 2015 at 14:20, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 14/09/15 13:02, SK53 wrote: > > On the other hand finding a way to access population figures to places > > for data consumers is useful. Directly adding population values may work > > in Britain where population change is relatively slow, so slowly > > outdated data is still useful, but is risky in other parts of the world. > > At the very lease also add a link to wikipedia/wikidata as well, which > > ultimately should obviate having to maintain population values > > That is precisely where I started ;) > Or rather adding the wikipedia link ... > > The problem is that even coverage in wikipedia is far from complete so > one finds erratic quality of information. Additionally wikidata is still > at an early stage and does not have the bulk of the information already > in wikipedia, so someone has to go through and change all the > information blocks around or add missing ones where needed :( > > -- > 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 >
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