Hi Again,
This has been discussed before:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#City.2C_Town_or_Village.3F
I'd suggest searching/reading the wiki to see what's been accepted and
why things are as they are.
Adding a population key is probably a good idea though.
Cheers
Ross
On 13/11/15 18:42, Leith Bade wrote:
Hi,
I have been working in OSMI to tidy up Australia's places. My goal is
to try and get it roughly in line with the quality in New Zealand.
There are a few places with non-numeric population tags, a few
labelled "town" but the population is tiny (100-200).
I have been trying to work out a reasonably consistent methodology for
City vs Town.
I am thinking of ensuring that all "City" councils are listed as a city.
Additionally every "City" should have a recent population tag which I
have been taking from the 2011 Census. This makes it easier for people
making maps from the data as they can differentiate large/small cities.
As for very small "towns" the situation is less clear. Most towns
don't have a population tag so OSMI does not flag them, the few that
do get flagged. I think we will just have to leave those as is since
the local community will have a better sense of if the locals consider
a place to be a town or a village.
Thanks,
Leith Bade
le...@mapbox.com <mailto:le...@mapbox.com>
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