I continue to oppose the proposal at https://wiki.openstreetmap. org/wiki/India:Places because it can lead to classifications that are significantly different from common usage. Hence it will make the map less useful to users. For instance the proposal that the classification of 'village' should be used only for panchayats will often promote a smaller settlement and hide larger settlements. There will also be a disparity in usage across the country.
There is an adequate classification at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place which accords largely with common usage. The government classification could however be attached to the node (or the boundary if available) with a specific key that reflects its administration status - e.g. GOIClassification=xxx. On 22 August 2016 at 16:36, Yogesh K S <yog...@itforchange.net> wrote: > Bringing this back again since there was no clear acceptance on the > classification of Indian places[1] from last discussion some years > back[2]. I can see that many small towns are tagged as cities in some > states[3]. And the List of Cities in India entry on enwiki is by > population which seems to be incomplete[4]. > > If there is a lack of consensus on classification proposal made on the > OpenStreetMap wiki India page, we can discuss or else use the same as > accepted one. > > > [1]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Places > [2]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-in/2012-May/thread.html > [3]http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/hYb > [4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:List_of_cities_in_India > > > > -- > yogi > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > >
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