On 24/01/19 12:16, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 10:19, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdre...@gmail.com <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On 23. Jan 2019, at 22:35, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com
<mailto:pla16...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> According to the wiki, they're not
> based on services either.
if the wiki says it explicitly like this we should fix it.
Just looking & it's a mixture, & also a bit of a mess
=city: the largest settlement or settlements within a territory
=town: an important urban centre ... normally have a good range of
shops and facilities which are used by people from nearby villages.
=village: A settlement with between 1,000 and 10,000 inhabitants
=hamlet: an isolated settlement, typically with less than 100-200
inhabitants
=isolated_dwelling: the smallest kind of human settlement. They are
outside other settlements ... must not consist of more than 2 households
=locality: an unpopulated location (but the example photo is of an
inhabited village!)
I would suggest we remove all reference to number of inhabitants, &
base the decision on each mappers own recognition of how "important"
this place is, so an isolated "village" with only a few hundred people
in it, but which is the main centre for this area will be a town, &
maybe even a city?
No, the population size is a handy guide and should be kept - as a
guide. May add the word 'typically' where it is missing?
I'm happy to have a go at them if we're willing?
A problem is that the British have a system .. based on old definitions
- using things like cathedrals to help define their definitions.
On 'one set of rules' is going to match world wide. The number of pubs
may be a useful criteria in Australia, but not in Morocco.
The document needs to be a guide .. not a 'rule'.
One guide should be that surrounding places must be relative in level of
important to the place that is being mapped. I don't think a place with
no post office can be more important than a place with a post office in
the same area.
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