> And if you look at the English descriptions ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places), it clearly states > that a hamlet is a rural community. So that would certainly not fit for > Mariakerke. As it's part of the centre of Oostende.
Well, it needs some historical context: The conventions were written when we only had the tags city, town, village, suburb and hamlet. Over time some new tags were added like neighbourhood and recently quarter. place=suburb isn't used in Belgium since our cities are basically too small for the tag to fit. place=hamlet can be replaced by place=neighbourhood nowadays in a lot of cases, so wiki should be adapted. In some cases it may be difficult to put a place in either the hamlet or the neightbourhood category but they're on the same level of importance, so it shouldn't matter too much. place=quarter was a bit controversial, and I don't really understand the difference with place=neigbourhood, so I'd advice against using it. I don't even know if it's being rendered already. As for Mariakerke, I'd go with place=neighbourhood. Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
