No reason whatsoever.... but how do you determine what a place calls itself? What the Parish Council puts on the "village" sign -> according to the PC. What the population maps to according to some algorithm -> according to the author of the algorithm.
On 2015-09-14 15:23, Richard Symonds wrote: > Is there any reason that a place can't be both? > eg. > "defines self as=town" > "defines self as=village" > "defined by X as village" > > Or the like? > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > WIKIMEDIA UK IS AN INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT CHARITY WITH NO LEGAL CONTROL OVER > WIKIPEDIA NOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS CONTENTS. > > On 14 September 2015 at 14:20, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 14/09/15 13:02, SK53 wrote: >>> On the other hand finding a way to access population figures to places >>> for data consumers is useful. Directly adding population values may work >>> in Britain where population change is relatively slow, so slowly >>> outdated data is still useful, but is risky in other parts of the world. >>> At the very lease also add a link to wikipedia/wikidata as well, which >>> ultimately should obviate having to maintain population values >> >> That is precisely where I started ;) >> Or rather adding the wikipedia link ... >> >> The problem is that even coverage in wikipedia is far from complete so >> one finds erratic quality of information. Additionally wikidata is still >> at an early stage and does not have the bulk of the information already >> in wikipedia, so someone has to go through and change all the >> information blocks around or add missing ones where needed :( >> >> -- >> Lester Caine - G8HFL >> ----------------------------- >> Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact >> L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk >> EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ >> Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk >> Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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