On Sunday 19 August 2018 10:07:46 HKT Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On 19 August 2018 at 04:59, Yves <yve...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > Who cares if the presence of a post office is the criterum to be a > > 'village' for a 200 people place if it's the only inhabited place 100km > > around? > > This is a problem we encounter frequently in Australia. The "settlement" > may consist only of a service station or a pub, plus 1 - 2 houses, so it > "should" be an OSM hamlet, but it is also the main attraction / centre of > life (& sometimes the only buildings!) for 300 klm in any direction. > > Do you mark it as a hamlet, which will only render at extreme zoom, or mark > it as a village / town, as it is a vital source of supplies / fuel / > contact?
If, from a site visit, residents nearby come here for shopping food, etc. (vital economic activity) I would mark it as village, otherwise hamlet. I would also compare to nearby places to see if there are service stations and pubs in settlements of similar populations, to determine what kind of services are expected in village/hamlet there. Michael -- Sent from KMail
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