On Sep 22, 2020, at 7:05 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > For example, in Seattle I lived in the Wallingford Neighborhood. Seattle has > defined boundaries for each of the neighborhoods. In other areas, > neighborhoods are roughly defined by people living there. In those cases > using a place= tag makes more sense.
Clifford: One more thing. Several summers ago, I lived at / house sat at my sister's house in the Magnolia suburb of Seattle. I believe I mapped fairly well the little "village downtown" there (it was walking distance, as a nice suburb or neighborhood might be) as a hobby after I fed her cats, I'd have to check OSM data history I think summer of 2012. But you'll notice that suburbs (not Neighborhoods, as you call them) of Seattle are tagged in OSM as place=suburb. (And it wasn't simply me who has done that, I think I only did it once or twice for Magnolia and maybe Ballard). In a larger city like Seattle, this seems about right. I don't like disagreeing with a friend like you about where you have lived (and all I did was feed my sister's cat for a few weeks, and I do love Seattle) but I think the jury is in about Seattle suburbs in OSM, and they are tagged suburb. Does Wallingford or Ballard or Magnolia get called a neighborhood in local vernacular? Sure, I don't doubt it: you just did so yourself! But in OSM tagging, which is I think what we're trying to better agree upon, I think the tagging of place=suburb on these is correct. For the original poster's question, I think I've already stated my opinion, though there are certainly enough to go around! We do a lot of landuse=residential on "neighborhoods" in the USA, especially without any "council" or active administration at the sub-city level. Larger cities DO have these, admin_level=10 is correct on them. Smaller cities and rural areas that are "a cluster of homes/houses/dwellings?" I think a (multi)polygon tagged landuse=residential works well there. SteveA _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
