I used hamlet for my block as pop limit of <1000 is given = satisfied I used suburb for it is neither a village or a town but holds 2 ~ 10 blocks = suggest
We do have villages within cities and they have been tagged properly, villages never have sub areas or blocks. Therefore, sectors are not villages. On 10 January 2011 16:35, Brian Quinion <openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk>wrote: > > 2) We so many times have blocks or sectors (tagged as locality or hamlet) > > OK - this sounds like a combination of bad tagging and software > problems with nominatim and the mapnik style sheet. > > Can I suggest that locality and hamlet are probably not the correct > tags and that you need to come up with a consistent way to tag these > types of features. Once there is a valid tagging scheme support can > be added to nominatim. > > The suggestion of place=block or place=sector and addr:block, > addr:sector sound like a good direction to go. > > So > > 1) they need to be documented on the wiki > 2) discussed to look for any problems - for instance do they work in > other countries with similar problems? > 3) a sample area needs to be tagged > 4) software tools need to be extended to support the new tags. > > This can potentially be done quite quickly - and using tags which do > not overlap with existing tags makes this a LOT simpler! > > -- > Brian >
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