Irrespective of this proposal, which I hadn't noticed, I've been using it for all places in my area for some time now - over 100 villages in South Cambridgeshire are tagged. I suspect I not the only one. I am tempted to say this is a de facto map feature and add it to the list anyway.
I think this is information that is usefully in the map data not as a source of background information (where it would be more appropriately linked to) but because it can inform map rendering - remember the discussion we had recently (thread starts at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-November/020261.html ) about what constitutes villages, towns and cities - Bedford and Cambridge are much the same size, but one is a town; villages of a few thousand are treated the same as those of a few hundred and so on Renderers can adjust caption sizes or other symbols based on population if it wants to if the info is available. David On 16/01/2008 01:45, Robin Paulson wrote: > does anyone know what's happening with this tag? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Population > > it appears to have been voted on, but it isn't really clear what, the > tags were only added after voting had completed. i think it's rejected > (11 yes to one no), but the last comment implies not. also, there are > lots of questions in the comments that are unanswered. anyone? it > wasn't announced on talk > > personally, i think this is a good candidate for data to include in > wikipedia and link to with some sort of on-screen tag, as has been > discussed recently > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
