I'd revert the changes. The rule I worked to a couple of years ago, when I tried to iron out some of the inconsistencies in London was to use place=town for places with a sizeable retail centre (typically lots of clothes shops as well as food).
Richard On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > Hello there, > > As somebody who dislikes change, I was slightly horrified to see these > edits: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26783815 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26795471 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26567938 > > The user has changed a whole lot of places within London and Birmingham > that were tagged as town / village / hamlet / etc. to place=suburb. He > appears to be following the advice now given on the wiki, that: > > "Areas of a town/city should not be tagged with place=town, place=village > or place=hamlet. These should only be used for distinct settlements." > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb > > Apart from the fact that I cannot stand it when the work of self-appointed > wiki editors leads to somebody making sweeping edits of others' work, I > also really don't like losing the hierarchy of place implicit in Wimbledon > being marked as a town, Forest Hill a village, Belleden a hamlet, and so > on, and them all just becoming 'suburb'. Apart from the fact that many > places in London were historically towns in their own right, they are often > also regarded as town centres. > > But should we swallow this and move to the use of > place=suburb/quarter/neighbourhood? > > If so, I'd like to do this properly, instead of the process that this user > has gone through to just make everything 'suburb'. > > Regards, > Tom > > > > -- > http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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