Toward a national system for functionally classifying populated places

By the way, I’m encouraged to hear that you also find the Census Bureau’s definition of “urban” to be a stretch. Maybe as a first step, we could reach a consensus that the 1,675 place=town nodes that fall outside an urban area should be demoted to place=village, regardless of population? This would be a straightforward bulk edit, except that many of these nodes in New England have incorrectly conflated a town with a town and need to be retagged as place=municipality.