On 7/10/17 08:59, Warin wrote:
Rather inconsistent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biniguy,_New_South_Wales says the population 2011 was over 600.
Yeap, need to be careful when interpreting ABS data. In 2011 Biniguy was a 2500 square kilometre locality and had a population of 625. By 2016 the Biniguy locality had been shrunk considerably and has a population of 147. The population of the "CBD" around the silo is a massive 78 (plus/minus the random error the ABS adds "to protect the confidentiality of data"). The old NATMAP standard was that you needed a population of at least 200 to be considered a populated place, so I'm not sure if Biniguy even qualifies to be a hamlet.
The relation looks to define the area. Does this need a place tag at all?
I don't know. When I started importing the NSW admin_level 10 boundaries the existing tagging practice was to add a place tag. I set all of my place tags to locality by default and added a fixme tag to review this. The most important thing seems to be to add the place node to the admin relation as a label as this lets consumers like Nominatim know that they are the same thing (it also allows the two place tags to be programmatically checked).
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