Martin, I'm not sure the NYC example is helping. You mentioned this was discussed on the German mailing list--can you give some other examples from Germany (or whereever) about how this might be used? Thanks, Brad
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > 2011/9/28 Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>: > > On 9/27/2011 8:26 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > How? What's wrong with all of the sub-Manhattan entities being > > place=neighborhood? > > > not sure if there is something wrong there, so you could (as local > mapper) decide to do it like this. In other parts of the world mappers > have expressed the desire to have this hierarchy (they identified 3 > levels necessary for their area), that's the reason for the quarter > proposal. > > > > Maybe "quarter" would be the best tag for the boroughs, > > but it seems like a horrible term for something that's not literally a > > quarter of the city. > > > > A borough is an administrative entity and therefore already > represented with admin_level and boundary. > > Generally you shouldn't interpretate the tags literally but see them > as a code, where the actual meaning is by (our=OSM) definition > (generally in the wiki). It does not make sense to have one tag for > quarters and one for sestieres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestiere . > > An osm-suburb is not a (suburb=in suburbia). > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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