On 08/27/2016 09:45 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Devdatta Tengshe <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > This link gives the criteria: > > > http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf > > <http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/kerala/13-concept-34.pdf> > > For a town, the population criteria is quite small. To be called a > town, it should meet all the following criteria: > 1)Population exceeds 5,000 > 2)At least 75% of male working population is employed outside the > agricultural sector > 3)Minimum population density of 400 persons per km > > Thanks Devdatta. It makes sense to have the place classification > follow some kind of mapping to Census classification for consistency. > Population should not be used as the only defining property to > classify a place. We already have the `population` tag to record this > value.
This is quite complex than I thought but it does makes sense to follow Census classification. For now, I've added list of references for classifying the places and shared this on forum(http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=606639) too for anymore responses.
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