Changeset: 37716171
Reverted likely garbage by EzekielT
Closed by SomeoneElse_Revert
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source | n/a |
Discussion
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Comment from Geography Canada
Redland City's website (which I thought, at the time, was an allowed source, before I knew) says that it's a city, but now you've explained why we can't source from such places, as OSM has its own rule on what's a "city". I did not know that then. Sorry.
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Comment from Geography Canada
"What the place describes itself as is essentially irrelevant in OSM terms. If local OSM mappers think that it deserves to be a city, then it does. Previous to your edit, it's actually spent time in OSM as both town and city. It's original "city" status seems to have come directly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Australia , and there are a bunch of places on there that I've been to that I don't think should qualify as "cities" in OSM terms - Rockingham and Fremantle are obvious examples (both currently "towns" in OSM).
I'd suggest discussing it on the talk-au list." -
Comment from Geography Canada
Same applies here, right?
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Comment from Geography Canada
"There are a couple of reasons why we can't use wikipedia as a source. One is that wikipedia is cc-by-sa licensed, and that licence is incompatible with OSM.
The other is that what OSM calls a "city" is described on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity . Wikipedia essentially just records what the city calls itself (or strictly speaking what someone has reported the city as calling itself).
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity even says "Smaller charter cities should normally be tagged using place=town to avoid these places being promoted too highly in gazetteer search results. According to OSM the population here is 4167, which even for Alaska counts as "smaller".
It should also be noted that admin levels and "place" levels are something that should be discussed within an OSM community - having someone coming in from outside and applying what are essentially random values without discussion just makes OSM data harder to use and OSM harder to edit for the people who _are_ trying to work together." -
Comment from Geography Canada
See comment on http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37716055 - the same applies here.
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Comment from Geography Canada
I did not know all of that at the time. Sorry.
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