Talk:Grand Falls, New Brunswick

This graticule seems misnamed; there are three towns larger in the graticule: Saint-Quentin, NB (2,280 according to Wikipedia); Grand Falls, NB (5,675 according to Wolphram|Alpha); and Van Buren, ME (2,502 according to Wolphram|Alpha). (Kedgewick is listed at 1,146 in Wolphram|Aplha.) While the central location is nice and it's on Google at the distance, one of the others seems better. I think I favour Grand Falls, but even if not, Saint-Quentin seems better from a population standpoint.

So the three options:

1. Leave as is (Kedgewick, New Brunswick)
2. Change to largest population (Grand Falls, New Brunswick)
3. Change to larger central location (Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick)

Support change to Grand Falls, New Brunswick, as largest population center. - Wmcduff 19:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Done - I really believe in the larger population centre idea - one important aspect is the from the point of view of someone new who stumbles across GeoHashing - "Ooh - let's see if my town is in here!" As per this link - there are 5 times as many folks from Grand Falls to find this, than foks from Kedgwick! For info, I'm wandering through Canadian graticules and checking for exactly this - if the graticule pages have never really been used, then I'm just moving them. If they have been used, I'm contacting the users before moving them. I'm using Stats Canada's "Urban Area" data, because that talks about a close cluster of where people actually live (rather than commuter data, or municipal boundaries). Cheers, AshleyMorton 10:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/hlt/97-550/Index.cfm?TPL=P1C&Page=RETR&LANG=Eng&T=802&SR=1&S=3&O=D&RPP=9999&PR=13&CMA=0