On 28/9/23 20:31, Michael Collinson wrote:
On 28/09/2023 11:18, Andrew Davidson wrote:
On 28/9/23 08:21, cleary wrote:
Windorah Qld and Ivanhoe NSW are both currently shown as "town" in
OSM but neither has more than rudimentary health service (if any), a
hotel, small primary school and service station. I couldn't buy a
coffee in either place last time I visited.
That is the general problem, most people want to inflate the
importance of a place so that it renders. Windorah has a population
of 76 and Ivanhoe 202. If it's lucky Ivanhoe might rate a village but
Windorah is most firmly in the hamlet class.
Perhaps this apocryphal Ireland solution should be used? :-)
A house - building
A house and a church - hamlet
A house, a church and a pub - village
A house, a church and two pubs - town
In olden times Australia rated places by the number of pubs. I still do,
3 or less pubs and I am comfortable security wise. More than 3 pubs and
I take care to lock stuff up. Most communities will try to hold on to
their last pub, once it is gone the community tends to die off too.
I did meet some English 4WD world travelers that had a world map. In the
north west corner of Australia was Carnegie on that map .. it is a
cattle station, has fuel and might do some food if you ask. It is a fair
way to the next places with fuel. It was on their map so they went. Such
is the power of 'filling in the blank spaces'.
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