I see your problem... could you tell me how exactly you define the hierarchy at the moment? Is it ad-hoc, with various rules in different areas etc?
Perhaps it would be better to, instead of having a hierarchy based on definitions, instead having a hierarchy based on pure population size. If this gives odd results, then perhaps you could have a "booster value" if the town is used as a post town or a seat of local government (for example). I worry that trying to define terms like "village" or "town" is doomed to failure, because very few will agree on what it means, no matter how much we try ;-) 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 15:08, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/09/15 14:23, 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? > > The obvious answer is that unless one adds some sort of filter it will > get counted twice? Once as a town and once as a village. There should > only be one place entry in OSM or so the > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place?uselang=en-GB says. I'm not > sure but adding a second place tag should not work I think. Place is > part of the hierarchy of a location on OSM, so having it appear as both > a town and village would be confusing on searches. > > -- > 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 >
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