Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

[John Smith]

On 11 December 2012 19:31, Alex Sims <al...@softgrow.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 6:06 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
>>
>> Ok, but I don't think we should get hung up on the coincidence between the
>> Australian official meaning of "city" and the tag "place=city". (By
>> coincidence, I mean, if we happened to speak some other language, obviously
>> there'd be no official designation of "city".)
>>
>> So...what do we want place=city to refer to?
>
> I would want "place=city" to refer to an urban populated area of at least
> 100,000 people as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values

As pointed out by others, the term city is fairly subjective, this
discussion comes up about once a year.

> I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed places to
> match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet & village grate on me as words,

Hamlet and village are terms used in Australia if you go looking, as
is suburb even when the area is mostly empty.

[Liz]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:56:48 +1100
John Smith <deltafo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> So...what do we want place=city to refer to?
> >
> > I would want "place=city" to refer to an urban populated area of at
> > least 100,000 people as per
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Values
>
> As pointed out by others, the term city is fairly subjective, this
> discussion comes up about once a year.
>
> > I've taken to fixing errors from Geofabrik OSMI and have changed
> > places to match the schema above. Whilst I find hamlet & village
> > grate on me as words,
>
> Hamlet and village are terms used in Australia if you go looking, as
> is suburb even when the area is mostly empty.

sounds metrocentric to me