Talk:Australian Tagging Guidelines
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Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size
Have recently had short discussions on this topic on both the Forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/tagging-towns-by-importance-not-population-size/103882 & Discord: https://discord.com/channels/413070382636072960/471231032645910529/1156228595124023438.
As mentioned on the Forum, I'd like to look at modifying our guidelines (& also the main wiki) by adding something like:
"When tagging population centres in sparsely inhabited areas, in addition to taking the number of residents into account, each towns relative importance to that area could also be considered e.g a village with only 200 people, but with e.g. a service station, store or pub etc, and with no other comparable population centres close by, could be tagged as a town. Similarly, an isolated bigger town (e.g. 5000 people, but with doctors / a hospital, a secondary school, larger shopping area etc) could be a city".
Possible criteria to look at / work on, so if they have at least one of these, they could move up:
Hamlet > village: primary school / operating railway station / possibly church?
Village > town: general (food) store / service station / pub / one of police - fire - ambos / possibly cafe or takeaway?
Town > city: doctor or hospital / secondary school / large shopping centre or area
All thoughts or comments welcome!
Will also post on the AU list. --Fizzie41 (talk) 04:16, 27 September 2023 (UTC)