-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Earl wrote: > On 23/03/2009 12:13, Adam Schreiber wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Elena of Valhalla >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> finding a working algorithm that uses only objective data and is >>> always able to select the proper item to print would be excellent, but >>> also probably not feasible in real life. >> Population? People can vote importance with their feet. > > Population's not enough. Some places "punch above their weight" - the > example I like to use is Hay-on-Wye in Powys. It's under 2,000 people > but is most clearly an important market town for the surrounding area. > In population it would be a modest village, but it is more important > than that.
Or, the more extreme case of London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Extent "The City of London is ... the second *smallest* British city in both population and size, after St David's in Wales." Or, counted another way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London is ... the most populous municipality in the European Union. London is both the smallest City in England and largest City in Europe by population :-). Robert (Jamie) Muro P.s. Looking at OSM, there seems to be a common compromise in place, with "The City of London" abreviated to just "City", and the name "London" shown at the center of the whole Greater London region (actually in Westminster). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknIKqoACgkQz+aYVHdncI20fACgv814txV+qrZ2PFH6Q4Zhfypc tWEAnj//sZm0MI4rTe1jRgMFoHxm4WPt =yD+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
