Liz wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Hugh Barnes wrote: >> Hi >> >> Another locally flavoured tagging question. >> >> I entered some towns recently. I got stuck wondering whether they were >> actually towns, villages, or hamlets.
>> So remoteness seems to count for something. >> >> Any other criteria you can think of? >> >> Is it time there were specific place designation guidelines for Oz places? >> I suspect we've been quite inconsistent in their absence. > In NSW the designations of many places are courtesy of an import from the NSW > Geographical Names Board. Some are simply out of date and some places don't > exist any more. > We have cities, towns and villages and they are not decided by population, so > a decision to annotate according to population would not give designations > consistent with the local designation. > There are a number of villages in our district with the largest having a > population about 1600 people. If it was further away from the main town it > might be considered a town in its own right. > > Anyone got any Australian definitions for city / town / village we can look > at? Sure its only a town if its got at least two pubs, a chippie and a post office? But seriously, there has to be a process by which we can get this kind of information from the local council or state government? regards, Kim -- Operating Systems, Services and Operations Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
