Apr 24, 2024, 17:55 by fernando.treb...@gmail.com: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 12:06, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> > tagging@openstreetmap.org> > wrote: > > Antarctica has no cities, towns and villages. > > McMurdo Station, the largest and most important research station in > Antarctica, has been mapped as place=town since 2009, then briefly as > place=hamlet from 2012 to 2015, and then place=town again since 2015 with a > brief edit war trying to map it as place=city. Should this be fixed? > in my opinion yes, but I am not willing to invest time to convince people or edit it (there is a lot of more obvious changes that should be done, I am cleaning some vandalism right now, this is at most dubious tagging for renderer - and far far less obvious than many other I have seen) (at least it is not tagged as place=city) > > > No people live there permanently. > > There is a permanent civilian population in the Chilean Villa Las Estrellas > and another in the Argentinian Fortín Sargento Cabral (Esperanza Base). > Interesting. I was trying to dig into it and found more conflicted info. (it seems that population is year-round there but specific people are not living there permanently and this places are setup to increase strength of territorial claims) > And then there are the so-called > “permanent” research stations, staffed year-round, never empty, but which > rotate staff regularly. I think these stations qualify as settlements and > should not be treated as collections of empty structures. They can be seen as > temporary workplaces, similar to ports or mines, which, despite not even > having a "population" staying overnight, still influence decisions about > highway classification. > I agree.
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