On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Karl Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're still missing the point about San Jose--it's larger in both area and > population (and probably in economic activity as well), and is located > within an hour's drive of San Francisco, but San Francisco is better known > around the world and should arguably take priority in rendering. > My idea was that major_ could be used for a city "of greater importance" of some kind. Someone also suggested a value metropolis for the large metropolitan areas. I do not agree that using population or area is a good way to solve this problem. Finding population data for all named places is not easy (this problem extends beyond the largest cities) and population is not necessarily a good way to find the most "important" place name in an area. - Gustav
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