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Town names - small ones appear, large ones are missng


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somehow skydemon shows mainly names of very small towns but does not show names of larger towns. is there a setting i have messed up that can fix that?

here is an exmaple.. look at the town "Turbenthal" which is a quite small town, and compare it to "Neubrunn" which is basically a collection of about 20 houses. I would expect SkyDemon to show me the name of Turbenthal rather than Neubrunn, but it does the opposit. When i make a call to a local airfield and i tell them i am overhead Neubrunn nobody knows where i'm at, but when i tell them i am overhead turbenthal, people understand. This is true both in flight planning mode and in navigation in flight. any idea what i did wrong?

here is a comparison of the skydemon screenshot (zoomed all the way in to show these two towns with maximum detail) compared to a map that depicts every building in the town as a black rectangle.



Skydemon knows Turbenthal, i pops up as a result when i search for the name and its area is shown on the map. Pleasae help me in getting my settings right. 

EDIT: when i switch off "Urban Areas" in the surface features settings, Turbenthal is completely hidden, it doesn't even get a yellow dot.

EDIT2: this is with skydemon 3.6.2 on a google nexus 6p

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Pascal

Edited 9/2/2016 5:40:35 PM by psuter
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Tim Dawson - 9/5/2016 10:07:36 AM
Unfortuantely the town population data we have for Switzerland is not as accurate as it could be, and towns do not always have their individual populations recorded correctly. In this instance, for example, Neubrunn and Turbenthal both apparently have a population of 4067. I'm sure this isn't the case in real life, but it's the only data our mapping engine has available when it comes to deciding what towns are visible at what zoom levels. In most cases it gets it right, but with smaller towns which have both been given identical population figures, occasionally the less appropriate town will be shown. There isn't much we can do about this at the moment.

Oh i see what the problem is: in switzerland we have towns and we have municipalities . a larger town is also a municipality while smaller towns can be attached to larger ones so they don't have to have their own administration. I just googled Neubrunn and found out that this is exactly the case here: Turbenthal is the main town and Neubrunn, Hutzikon, Oberhofen, Ramsberg, Schmidrüte and what so ever belong to the same administration. that's probably the reason why you have the same population for both Neubrunn and Turbenthal and maybe also for the other towns. I believe though i have just found your missing link from an official source:
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/04.html
This is a list of all Towns in Switzerland, published by the federal office for statistics. In the excel sheet you see a column called "Ortname" which is the name of the town, and in the column "GDENAMK" is the name of the municipality the town belongs to. If you could merge this with your data and then simply display the municipalities rather than the small towns that belong to them i think the problem at hand would be solved.

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Pascal

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psuter - 9/2/2016 5:34:52 PM
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ckurz7000 - 9/5/2016 10:52:55 AM
Tim Dawson - 9/5/2016 11:07:51 AM
psuter - 9/5/2016 11:36:11 AM
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