Looking for some guidance here from the tagging experts. Please see the dispute section on the Turkmenistan wiki discussion page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Turkmenistan#Disputed:_Suggested_Place_Tags_for_Administrative_Subdivisions
The nub is that I advocate classifying Turkmenistan's municipalities based on their official status according to the host government (see the wiki article Districts in Turkmenistan). Another mapper, Aka_Bob, disagrees and insists that there are OSM guidelines based on population (I note that the OSM place=village article says a village can have up to 10,000 population, which in the United States is laughable--that would be a town or a city). Aka_Bob edited that section of the wiki article unilaterally without first consulting local mappers. I have no intention of entering into an edit war, but rather want to take this out to the community for discussion. I'd like to hear what people think. Opening classification of Turkmen muncipalities to free interpretation rather than a standard official classification strikes me as a recipe for chaos, particularly since official population data have not been published for over a decade (the 2012 and 2017 censuses were made secret) but maybe that's just me. What do you think? Best regards and Happy New Year to all! apm-wa
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