On 10/20/2010 01:24 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer<ha...@hawkesnest.net>:
The definitions are well-established.
but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the
wiki for key=place.
Oh? Every language version of
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place says approximately the same
thing.
The numbers differ slightly, but they’re all based upon population.
Germany lowers the village max size to 2000 and hamlet to 200.
France uses the normal definitions, but lowers hamlet to 100.
Italy uses the normal definitions for city and town, but their own for
village/hamlet/isolated_dwelling.
Russia uses the normal definitions.
I can’t read the Ukrainian one at all, but it looks like they use the
normal definition for city, and their own for everything else.
No clue on the Chinese one, but I’d guess that at least city is the
same, based on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#China_.28People.27s_Republic_of_China.29
I don't know if the British do tag strictly according to the place
description, but I know that Italians and Germans don't. In Europe a
town can be quite small, but will still be a town and a village can
nowadays be quite big and still remain a village.
Sure, but place=* is not the place to record the type of government.
In the US I am not sure what are your criteria, what about density, I
am also not sure how to tag downtowns (the space where your cities
were until they were torn down in the 60ies and 70ies due to fear of
riots (scnr, sorry, that's maybe not true for all of them) etc.
Why would the downtown portion of a city be tagged separately from the
rest of the city? Maybe a boundary=administrative and admin_level=10.
Otherwise I can’t see a need.
—Alex Mauer “hawke”.
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