Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographic address labelling "Place"

[Liz]

Jim Busser wrote:
> On 2011-09-17, at 8:31 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
>>> Shall I ask a local list of english-speaking doctors a
>>> preference? I am sure they may prefer one among {Town, Urb}
>>> to 'Place'.
>>
>> Yes, please.
>
> The reply was
>
>       Urb doesn't really work .....there is a strong rural culture that
>       characterises rural as "not urban"
>
> so I then proposed
>
>       Municipality
>
> which was approved of.
>
> (While there is no perfect agreement on what municipality necessarily
> means -- on account of variation in governmental statutes and regulations,
> same as for town, city etc -- we are IMO safe to expect general agreement
> that 'municipality' can extend from village all the way up through city.)
>
> -- Jim
>

Municipality is urban_only in Australia. Urb is a non_word. People may
live in the 'burbs but that is urban only too.
Australian usage would understand 'Town / City / Suburb'
I have my surveyor son sitting next to me who says " 'Locality', but no
one is going to know what that means "