Thanks! Yes, it probably shouldn't be a one size fits all equation.
Against what you said, Rathdowney in SEQ, with ~1800 people, only has a cafe / takeaway / store with a few grocery items, pub, currently closed servo, all of police, RFS & (honourary) ambo, primary school, church/s but it's a very popular day-trip tourist stop, so I would definitely count it as a town. Most people travel 30k up the road to Beaudesert for a full range of services, so that should possibly become a city? But Maroon, 20k the other way, with only a primary school & a RFS station, would only be a village. Thanks Graeme On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 08:26, cleary <o...@97k.com> wrote: > > I agree that population is not necessarily the only factor but, in > practice, population correlates closely with the services and facilities > available in a location which is effectively the "relative importance", > isn't it? > > I presume you are considering putting bigger dots and bigger writing on > the map for small settlements in isolated areas. Map renderers can do that > for themselves if they wish. It is more important for OSM to show > on-the-ground truth. If a small settlement has few services, then showing > it as a town is misleading. > > 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. I don't think either place had even a small > supermarket or convenience store. Unlikely to find a doctor. Probably > wouldn't find a car mechanic, couldn't buy a new tyre if you needed one. > The locals all travel a couple of hundred kilometres for shopping, health > care etc. I find it very misleading to label these places as towns, just > because they are the largest settlements in their respective vicinities. > The towns are the places where people go to get the goods and services they > need. > > > > > > > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, at 2:18 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Have just raised this for discussion on both the Forum & Discord, so > > also throwing it out here. > > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Tagging_towns_by_relative_importance%2C_not_just_population_size > > > > Any thoughts or comments welcome, in any place! > > > > Thanks > > > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-au mailing list > > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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