Great start on this Minh, I tried to tackle this in the Baltimore Washington region last year. After reading the wiki, I decided on the following classifications:
* hamlet: census population was less than 200 * village: census pop. between 200 and 10000 * town: census pop. between 10001 and 50000 * city: major hub urban centers above 50000 There are some CDPs though that would be a city by population alone, but really don't have a true city feel, and cartographically would look bad as being a city on a map. The tricky one is Glen Burnie, sprawl area south of Baltimore with no urban core, yet the pop is over 65k. It is marked as a city now, but really should be town I think. I like your one city per metropolis idea. Elliott On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 12:12:59 PM Martin Koppenhoefer < [email protected]> wrote: > > 2015-01-09 12:45 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen <[email protected]>: > >> but more importantly, it accurately reflects what "going to town" means >> in the surrounding area. That seems to be the idea behind the wiki's >> nebulous definitions. > > > > +1 > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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