On 11/12/2012 6:06 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Ok, but I don't think we should get hung up on the coincidence between
the Australian official meaning of city and the tag place=city.
(By coincidence, I mean, if we happened to speak some other language,
obviously there'd be no official designation
Hi
I disagree, I believe the greater than 100,000 test is not applicable
within Australia.
OSM Wiki says a city is:
The largest urban settlements in the territory, normally including the
national, state and provincial capitals. These are defined by charter or
other governmental designation in
On 11/12/2012, at 9:17 AM, Chris Barham wrote:
Hi,
some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on;
changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241
The ones on the changeset that I think should be cities are:
NSW: Albury, Bathurst, Broken Hill, Coffs
Hi everyone, Firstly, a qualification:I've not read the Wiki on this subject,
so this is simply my opinion without the support of guidelines/rules/etc. I
believe, having authored/compiled some detail Magellan maps for eXplorist GPSrs
this year, that more important than guidelines or rules that
I would want place=city to refer to an urban populated area of at least
100,000 people as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values
I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed places to
match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet village grate on me as
Mind you, this
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Victoria,_Australia
Tells us that cities need at least 50,000 people, i guess Victoria is special.
Seriously, i don't think a hard number only test is very appropriate.
David
Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I would want
Hi Alex,
My view on all this is that if a place has officially been designated as a
city then we must tag it as such. If it is offically a town then we must
tag it as a town etc.
If we can't find any official designation then either common sense of maybe
a state specific rule could be applied.
On 12/12/2012 2:54 PM, Nick Hocking wrote:
My view on all this is that if a place has officially been designated
as a city then we must tag it as such. If it is offically a town then
we must tag it as a town etc.
If we can't find any official designation then either common sense of
maybe a
Wikipedia has some different information (with references) that are
considerably different.
Since the start of the 20th century, local government acts in each state
specify the criteria and thresholds and applications are made to the Governors
of the Australian
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