Emilie Laffray wrote: > 2009/9/11 Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com> > > > Hi there, > > I'm wondering how to map different quarters of some city, town and > > villages. > > > > Currently on wiki I only found place=suburb tag and I see that it is used > > also for mapping city's quarters. > > > > Only issue is that when you map quarter of some town or village currently > > the quarter has bigger font than name of village or town. > > > > Example here: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.4886&lon=18.0925&zoom=14&layers=B000 > >FTF > > We discussed it some time ago on the French mailing list. We decided to use > place=locality when it was not an administrative area of any kind.
In Belgium we use place=hamlet for them. It's probably skewing the definition of hamlet a bit but: (a) locality is for place names - not linked to a place where people live. Although it may sometimes be unclear whether that's the case or not -- a piece of land which had a name before houses were built there could have kept its name, but now it's a quarter. So actually it's not skewing the definition of hamlet too much: many of those quarters used to be hamlets but just got merged into a bigger village or town. (b) using suburb would also be skewing its definition a bit if you'd use it for quarters in small villages. The wiki page of suburb says it's for place=city suburbs (i.e. considerably larger entities than quarters), and renderers share that thought Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
