On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Andrew <wynnd...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> >> I like your motivation. But maybe it's not necessary. Using >> population=* achieves the same goal. > > There are two serious flaws with using population=*. The first is that you > have > to put in populations for absolutely everywhere; the normal OSM practice of > leaving unresearched attributes blank frustrates any application using > explicit > populations. The second is that the area to take the population of is often > ill-defined and may vary depending on the context.
My point is not that we should necessarily even use population=*. My point is that this proposal is redundant. There is no reason to use place=* to indicate the population. IF you want to indicate the population, use population=*. i.e. Tag what you mean. It is a similar argument to saying that highway=* should not be used to indicate the number of lanes: Use lanes=* for that, and use highway=* for some other purpose. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
