Category talk:Bridges by village

Redundant / Duplicate / Misnomer ?

We already have/had a distinction by municipality (lowest administered subdivision in most countries), and additionaly by city. Members of the city set are usually also included in the municipality one. For the most part this sufficed on commons - villages did/do not have a meta-category, although the instances of such are usually part of a Districts of subcategory of a municipality instance.

The core reason to question the necessity of this type of meta-category is that we have lots of other types of settlement forms and it seems _very_ cumbersome to open up meta-categorizing on each and every one of these terms in consequence (read: town, hamlet, quarter, etc.) 93.201.175.102 22:50, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

There is an article on the names used for settlement types/forms here: en:Administrative division#English_terms

IMHO its not worth the effort to further subdivide the organization of media files for bridges below municipal level, because engineering/construction/maintenance of these structures is usually organized in municipal (or higher adm.) context and additionally the amount of bridges within a given municipal territory obsoletes further subdivision (practically, not technically)

The specific locality within the context of a municipality is often a part of the category title - and in that title context terms are not bound to fit a village, hamlet or similar terminus scheme.

Also note that there often is a precise definition of a municipality and its territory, whereas borders of a village may either be fuzzy, redefined or lost in a historical process. So while some bridge objects may be unquestionably associated to a specific village name, this may not be generalizable for a lot of other bridge structures out there (which adds to the question in consequence, wheter the effort of meta-categorizing on the village name attribute is just).

Village boundaries are not defined as well as those of municipalities, often there is no active, let alone official, instance that could reply a valid or semi-valid boundary polygon (of course this is true for many small-scale places as well, such as hamlets, isolated-houses, dwellings, ..)

Without such a polygon, the bridge structure categories may move a lot, because in many cases there may be no common ground to base a is-in decision on. --93.201.175.102 23:25, 24 June 2022 (UTC)