2009/3/24 Robert (Jamie) Munro <[email protected]>: > -----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."
To even more complicate that one the population of the City varies somewhat. Only about 8000 people actually live there, but during a week day it contains about 500,000 people. So it's clearly a pretty important place to be, but a crap place to live. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
