2011/1/19 John Smith <[email protected]>: > On 19 January 2011 14:17, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem here is subject v objective tagging, in terms of airports > this can be objective stated based on international flights a day and > the same with cities, if you want to indicate population tag > population, take for example some regional 'cities' in Australia some > have 50,000 or less people but still call themselves a city.
This would still be "objective" in respect to the surroundings. It is important to notice that one scheme regarding only population for place as the current wiki definition could be interpreted, won't work on a global basis. This can also work on a regional basis, and there it is indeed possible to identify the reasons for a classification. Last night I made a proposal how we could deal with this problem in general, and "invented" some new place values. When looking at this I made up my mind and came to a different system (subtagging), which is described in the second half of the page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/new_place_values cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
