On Saturday 18 August 2018 22:10:15 HKT José G Moya Y. wrote: > Plwase take into notice that, in some countries, the difference between > suburb, hamlet, town or village is not only based on population but in > political issues, such as self-government, also. > > When I see my hometown is defined as "aldea" (hamlet) in wikidata I always > got angry, because, being statistically a hamlet (~200 people), it *is* > politically a *village* (it elects its own town major and has its own self > government and budget). > > There are many such villages in Spain, (specially in the "Spanish Finland", > the demographic desert between Soria and Teruel) and that is a point of > conflict with many EU directives that request villages provide services a > such small villages can't afford.
But does it look like a village from an untrained eye? i.e. what services does it provide? If it really provides services that a village provide than it is really a village. If I am doing the mapping, if the settlement is small (less than 200 people) AND does not provide services where a village should provide, I will mark it as a hamlet despite every official designation. -- Sent from KMail
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