On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:56 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/22 Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>: >> population in general cannot combine farming and fishing. Many of >> these are so isolated that there exists no cars there. > > > IMHO the "isolated" in isolated dwelling is about the context, whether > a building is part of a bigger settlement or is isolated and therefore > to be considered a settlement itself. > > > Looking at the hierarchy you list above it came to my mind that you > are maybe talking about administrative classification (in OSM boundary > adminlevel, ...) and not about settlements? > The grend had an administrative function as they where responsible (or partly responsible) for some of the munincipal services long time ago, this have been gone since the new law of munincipation of 1956 (Komuneloven).
Gard have never had any other administrative function than that you had to be a male landowner to have voting rights before 1901. The fogd was a church division of the country, but as the church had a lot of power up until mid 1800 this division also had administrative functions (indirect) Though we have the vær type of settlement, which are really isolated (Grip is just a couple of islands without roads just to mention one), many of which are only holiday homes nowadays, but some are still living communities even though the younger generations seems to be leaving. The gard is not necessary a function farm anymore, the grend is not a dense group of houses, more of a group of somewhat spread farms, these farms can be as close as the farm yards share border, or with a few kilometer separation. The grend where I grew up the farms was within 2 kilometers of each other, though there was a clear separation to the neighbouring grends. A[] > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
