Post #3063707
2025-12-01 17:23 UTC
@mdione@en.osm.town
Those imports date from long before I was involved in OSM. I'm not sure if any of the difference in place density shown for Spain is due to artefacts of the import process, or if it all relates directly to IGN data (which would suggest that some regions really do have far more named places than others). As I mentioned, I could believe Galicia being unusual, but I'm a little surprised at the density in the northern Meseta (between Madrid and Leon, say).
@amapanda@en.osm.town
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@alan@en.osm.town 2025-12-01 18:26
@mdione@en.osm.town @amapanda@en.osm.town As I've been thoroughly nerdsniped I may as well keep going. Same query as above, but specifically for place=hamlet and place=locality. This confirms that Galicia really does have an unusually high hamlet density. So do Brittany and parts of Bavaria and southern Poland. Separately, Spain seems to have a roughly NW to SE gradient for locality. I have no real explanation for that. Eastern France and Slovakia are also prominent here.