2010/5/19 Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net>: > On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: >> >> But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? >> > >> > No. >> > Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >> > isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on >> > regular maps as if they were towns >> > I'm sure that the Argentinians and the Americans have similar farms. >> >> then they should be tagged as place=hamlet, shouldn't they? >> > no, they aren't hamlets, or villages. > places which have a place= in Au have official place names on government > registers (eg NSW Geographical Names Board)
And the smaller ones don't? In Germany all human settlements (excluding the ones that are not "official" i.e. illegal) are in some government register, be it hamlets or smaller. I guess you would generally have to adopt the criteria for places in AU, we did this in Germany and Italy as well. e.g. 999 inhabitants is far too big for a hamlet in Europe. Towns we are not classifying by population (on the lower end) but by their "status". I guess in AU with it's scarse settlement structure it is necessary to display hamlets also on lower zoom levels in the rendering than we can do in Europe, ... cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
