Re: [OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

2009-03-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Claudius Henrichs wrote: Why not tag a node with place=suburb + name=blabla ? A suburb will generally have a population one or two orders of magnitude above that of a village. Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

2009-03-24 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/24 James Stewart j.k.stew...@ed.ac.uk How are we to mark the 'suburb' of a village... or at least the name of a district or neighbourhood in a village or small town. I tend to have to use hamlet to make sure that it does not appear at several zoom levels higher than the main village.

Re: [OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

2009-03-24 Thread James Stewart
That is another strategy I have tried - the residential area tagged with a name. This works OK for small neighbourhoods, but name can be rendered rather small for larger ones. Again, it involves drawing a border, which is fine it is clear and known, but then we might as well use