On 10/20/2010 01:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer<[email protected]>:
Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for every
country?
I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on!
actually this never worked well, and in Germany and Italy people are
not following these definitions strictly (but often they happen to be
inside the range).
It is clear that there can't be the same numbers (if numbers is the
approach to go anyway) in the whole world, as Asian cities happen to
be far bigger then European ones, and defining the limit by 100000
can't work there, it's obvious.
IMO that just means that rendering needs to be based purely and directly
on population numbers, or we need some higher numbers (1 000 000 =
metropolis[1] 10 000 000 = megacity[2]? ) It might be useful to use a
relation to group separate legal-cities with their core city into a
metropolis, but that might be overcomplicating things.)
It doesn’t mean that the place=* values should be hijacked for some
other purpose.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity
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