“an isolated "village" with only a few hundred people in it, but which is the main centre for this area will be a town, & maybe even a city?”
It’s not possible to have “town” level services with less than 1000 people. A town has a major market (retail area) serving the surrounding area, as well as basic educational, cultural and government facilities. Similarly, a city must have more than a few thousand people, if it has a hospital, university, transportation hub (port / airport etc), government and business offices, and so on. On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:17 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:19, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > On 23. Jan 2019, at 22:35, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > According to the wiki, they're not >> > based on services either. >> >> >> if the wiki says it explicitly like this we should fix it. >> > > Just looking & it's a mixture, & also a bit of a mess > > =city: the largest settlement or settlements within a territory > > =town: an important urban centre ... normally have a good range of shops > and facilities which are used by people from nearby villages. > > =village: A settlement with between 1,000 and 10,000 inhabitants > > =hamlet: an isolated settlement, typically with less than 100-200 > inhabitants > > =isolated_dwelling: the smallest kind of human settlement. They are > outside other settlements ... must not consist of more than 2 households > > =locality: an unpopulated location (but the example photo is of an > inhabited village!) > > I would suggest we remove all reference to number of inhabitants, & base > the decision on each mappers own recognition of how "important" this place > is, so an isolated "village" with only a few hundred people in it, but > which is the main centre for this area will be a town, & maybe even a city? > > I'm happy to have a go at them if we're willing? > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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