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> On 22. Sep 2017, at 17:22, SwiftFast wrote:
>
> There are many places to tag places. (node, way, admin area,
> landuse=residential, etc). This confuses me, and I assume it confuses
> many others. We need a comprehensive summary covering all cases.
>
> Here's a draft: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place_tagging_overv
> iew . It's likely inaccurate/incomplete. Please help me improve it.
the reason for the confusion is maybe, that there are different kind of things
mapped in the same key (place). A country as administrative territorial entity
is also covered by boundary=administrative and admin_level=2. Historically the
place nodes for this kind of object had been needed because we couldn’t
otherwise render these objects (too big/complex), e.g. with Osmarender. The
precise intention of the tag isn’t very clear, because the wiki only says
place=country is a tag for countries, but doesn’t specify what a country is, it
does give a hint though that it is also for non “nation states”.
Wikipedia is more explicit and mentions several meanings:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
eg sovereign state, non-sovereign state, geografic region associated with sets
of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct
political characteristics.
Other place values like counties or municipalities would definitely not need to
be mapped as places because they already are defined by their administrative
boundaries.
For settlements the situation is somehow different (more like country), as the
settlement land often doesn’t correspond to the political administrative
territory with (often) the same name, simply because there’s (usually) space
between on settlement and another.
I would be in favor of deprecating the use of place for things that are defined
by administrative boundaries and of purely administrative nature (e.g. states,
counties)
Cheers,
Martin
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