Some general notes:
1. Many people (especially estate agents) add 'town' & 'village' etc to
addresses in an attempt to appear further upmarket & keep prices a bit
higher. Never really works.
2. I agree with the editor's comment that confusion/disagreement about
degrees of suburbs is not a valid reason to tag them incorrectly as towns.
3. Not checked any of the edits specifically but would the name used by
the local authority/council give a reference?
4. Tags not amended 'in ages' makes them ripe for review/update, not set
in stone.
Dave F.
Mapper, not committee member
On 19/11/2014 10:07, Tom Chance 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
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