On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: >> On 09/11/2009 11:25 AM, Pieren wrote: >>> No, it's not a renderer problem, it is just different things. I'm not >>> a native english speaker but if I translate "suburb" and "quarters", >>> it is two different things. >> >> I can’t actually find any definition of “quarters”, but the definition >> that people have used in this thread fits with the definition of >> “suburb” as used within OSM. >> >> It’s not helped by the multiple definitions of “suburb”: Either a >> separate city (legally) which is in a sense a “satellite” of a larger >> one, or merely a subsection of a city. The relevant wikipedia article >> explains it fairly well. >> >> -Alex Mauer “hawke” > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but quarter is a part of the city, I > found one definition: > Quarter: A specific district or section, as of a city: the French Quarter. > > Definition of suburb: > 1. A usually residential area or community outlying a city. > 2. suburbs The usually residential region around a major city; the environs.
That might be the dictionary (or maybe wiki) definition of a suburb. But in practice we map what you describe as quarter as place=suburb in OSM. Suburbs don't always have a legal status (except when combined with admin_level=*). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
