On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Karl Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure it is. If a lot of people want to live in a place, in general that > should make it more notable. Besides, I was only suggesting using population > as a tiebreaker for equal "place" key values. It's not the final answer, but > it's objective and it goes a long way toward fixing the problem. I don't > like your _major and _minor suffixes because they imply different > population, which is not how you described it. How do you suggest we find population for places? I can tell that a town is a regional center, without having to know it's population. Maybe major/minor is not the best names, however. How many values should we have for populated places? We have 4 now (hamlet/village/town/city). Should we add more? Reduce to fewer? Maybe just one? - Gustav
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