Roy Wallace <waldo000...@...> writes: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:28 AM, sly (sylvain letuffe) > <li...@...> wrote: > > > > Here is another try for world wide standardisation of places in order to > > hopefully try to create a consistent database > > I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary. Using > population=* achieves the same goal. >
There are two serious flaws with using population=*. The first is that you have to put in populations for absolutely everywhere; the normal OSM practice of leaving unresearched attributes blank frustrates any application using explicit populations. The second is that the area to take the population of is often ill-defined and may vary depending on the context. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
