On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Gustav Foseid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ben Laenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It's a very bad idea IMHO. This is just trying to fix what's wrong with >> the town/city/village tags with more of the same tags. >
I don't understand the controversy here. The place=city/town/village granularity is freely defined per country. It is just a hierarchy inside the country. A town is maybe 10,000+ in England but maybe only 5000+ in Luxembourg or 100,000+ in US. Other countries might use other criterias as population (eg. surface in square meters). The question is coming because the name finder gives the same importance to Paris, USA and Paris, France (or something like that). Instead of making more artificial granularity on the place hierarchy which is just moving the problem a bit farther not fixing it, I would suggest to use other tags like the population or the admin_level. Then it is the responsibility of the software developer to decide which one is the best for his application. The same applies for maps : if the renderer has to choose between two closed place=town (text collision, not enough space), it can decide to select the town with the highest population, or may decide to show the town with the lowest admin_level. Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
