Two issues: 1) Recommended OSM tagging for place=* on smaller settlements is on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Populated_settlements.2C_urban_and_rural You can see it's based mainly on population and is not directly correlated to the form of government. Seems like admin_level=* is the place for levels of government--see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_admin_level (Ft Montgomery has a population of about 1500, so I'd agree with Martin to tag it as place=village.)
2) The rendering of labels for places varies. If you take a look at the area on the four map layers on osm.org, a Fort Montgomery label appears 0, 1, or 2 times. So tag for what it is, not for rendering. Brad On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As a side note, your example Fort Montgomery, NY, to me doesn't look like >> a hamlet, there's an elementary school, shops, a fire department, gas >> station, hotel, cafe, sports grounds, and a significant amount of houses, I >> would consider calling this a village. >> > > Local convention in New York is to follow the legal definitions. Fort > Montgomery is legally a hamlet. New York has a few 'hamlets' that are > actually small cities. (Levittown, population about 52,000, is the largest > of these.) Villages, towns, and cities are incorporated places with their > own local governments. Hamlets have no local government other than the > township and county that they're in. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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