On 24/01/19 12:50, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
“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.
In your area of the world I agree. You have a 'good' population density.
In some places the nearest neighbour can be 400 km away. The population
'centre' may have much less than 1,000 people in the local residential
area .. but may service 1,000s of square kilometres.
Necessity makes this population centre very important for the few people
living in that area.
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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:19, Martin Koppenhoefer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On 23. Jan 2019, at 22:35, Paul Allen <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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