Thanks Ian & Steve Looking at the numbers from a Qld perspective, I'd go inbetween the two samples!
e.g. Hamlet <250 Village 250-1000 Town 1000-15000 City 15000< Which would produce https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Bup It also becomes obvious that there are quite a few places with no population listed! Thanks Graeme On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 12:35, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > Oops, resending to the talk-au list as a whole: > > > On Oct 5, 2023, at 7:00 PM, Little Maps <mapslit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > City = > 50,000 people > > Town = 5000 - 50,000 > > Village = 1000 - 5000 > > Hamlet = < 1000 > > > > This kind of query gives a broad-brush pattern of how we can classify > places into cities, towns etc. If we can gain consensus on broad cutoffs, > we can then explore how services such as health and educational facilities > influence outcomes. > > A great OT query; thank you! > > In USA, and by no means do I mean to be culturally insensitive or seem > like I'm ramming anything down anybody's throat, we use some rough > guidelines at > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Tags#Places which > overlap somewhat. That wiki, again, deliberately USA-specific (and still > emerging and getting fine-tuned as of 2023) says: > > City = > 50,000 people > > Town = 10,000 - 50,000, though some "incorporated municipalities" which > are smaller than 10,000 (such as the rare state capital which qualifies, > like Montpelier, Vermont, or other VERY significant "towns" with less than > 10,000 but they contain an important "cultural center" like a university, a > hospital or other "major amenity" will get place=town as well, this can > include "major shopping" or something like "the only big box (hardware, > variety...) store around for a long ways") > > Village = 200 - 10,000, though this is flexible (as of 2023), and it is > emerging as consensus that a village contains at least a small commercial > area such as a supermarket, a small market (even a convenience store), a > bank, a gas station (or two, you know, for price competition's sake!) and > perhaps a medical clinic and/or cluster of doctor / dentist / medical > offices. > > Hamlet < 200 people > > Isolated Dwelling = no more than two households / families. (Could be a > sheep / cattle station for you folks down under). > > Trying to help offer perspective, please, though, "you do you" (Aussies do > Aussies). > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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