Well, from the mapping point of view, these political differences between a Spanish small village and a Spanish big hamlet matter:
1) Villages have their own major, so they have a town hall. 2) Villages have their own local rules on max speed, buildings, street markets and banking holidays. So a van driver looking to sell his/her watermellon cargo could need to know this fact. El sáb., 18 ago. 2018 20:31, djakk djakk <djakk.dj...@gmail.com> escribió: > I agree with Michael, openstreetmap should reflect what the mapers see, > not what the politics and the administration see. Though it is also > interesting to map administrative things like borders. > > djakk > > > Le sam. 18 août 2018 à 17:33, Yves <yve...@mailbox.org> a écrit : > >> Michael, you don't seem to take the right direction to construct a >> fruitful discussion with Jose :) >> For your first issue, did you reach the Lithuanian and Russian community? >> >> Yves >> >> Le 18 août 2018 16:37:28 GMT+02:00, Michael Tsang <mikl...@gmail.com> a >> écrit : >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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