On 2/10/23 12:52, Little Maps wrote:
Hi again, fyi. I was curious to see how variable city/town tags were in
relation to population. About 1500 places spread around Aus have a
population tag according to an Overpass Turbo search.
You were a little too quick for me, I didn't have time to put them all
in. I've done all of the village/town/cities that I could line up with
the appropriate ABS UCL (or for some the appropriate mesh blocks). I
have not included places that are inside another place or places that
the ABS give a hyphenated name where it's not obvious which place node
to put the population on.
You can view them on a map:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhl cities
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhm towns
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bhp villages
Looks like Victoria is the home of city-flation.
Using Ockham’s razor, the simplest (best?) approach would be to
start super simple and then see what we’re missing. For example, map
all locations using population (or proxy) and then overlay presence
/ absence of hospitals, schools, etc and see where and how often
anomalies occur, and then discuss how to deal with these. There may
not be many. Otherwise we end up debating local issues only, like
the merits of the Windorah coffee shop, which doesn’t get us far imo.
Whatever people come up with it's got to be:
1. Simple to apply
2. Verifiable ie: other mappers need to be able to come to the same
conclusion
3. Consistent with the principle of least surprise
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