On 07/09/2018 11:10, Martin Wynne wrote:
Here's a couple of locations near me. One is in a village, the other
is in a town. Can you tell, just by looking at them, which is which?
If you already know one is a village and the other is a town, why do you
need any other means of identifying them?
You were suggesting identifying them by observation, using street lights
as a distinguishing factor.
However, this road in Badsey has no street lighting. If it was in a
town, it would have:
https://goo.gl/maps/LdvB1zisEiP2
This road in Evesham has no street lights. That doesn't make it a village:
https://goo.gl/maps/dvyf4foNydN2
It is true that the larger the urban area, the more likely it is to be
consistently lit, and towns tend to be larger than villages. But that's
just a variant of using population size to differentiate between a
village and a town. It's only reliable at the ends of the spectrum,
where there is already little dispute. It doesn't help with the edge
cases or the atypical scenarios.
Mark
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