Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-30 Thread Yogesh K S
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

2016-08-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
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 meet all the following cr

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-26 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
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 popula

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
The 2001 census defined a city as a place with over 100,000 persons [1]. Any idea if there is a more updated definition, or what would be the difference between a village and town? [1] http://censusindia.gov.in/Metadata/Metada.htm#2c ___ Talk-in mailing

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-26 Thread Warin
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 de

Re: [Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-25 Thread I Chengappa
I continue to oppose the proposal at https://wiki.openstreetmap. org/wiki/India:Places because it can lead to classifications that are significantly different from common usage. Hence it will make the map less useful to users. For instance the proposal that the classification of 'village' should be

[Talk-in] Classification of Indian places

2016-08-22 Thread Yogesh K S
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