Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

On 08/27/2016 09:45 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Devdatta Tengshe > wrote: > > This link gives the criteria: > > > http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf >

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: > This link gives the criteria: > > http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_ > files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf > > For a town, the population criteria is quite small. To be called a town, > it should

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

This link gives the criteria: http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf For a town, the population criteria is quite small. To be called a town, it should meet all the following criteria: 1)Population exceeds 5,000 2)At least 75% of male working

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

I too, have raised this same subject on the Australian list and I have seen it raised on the UK list with regards to Scotland. I think the population being used to determine the OSM place classification works well as a first iteration. What is being determined here is not the official, legal

[Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

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