"Dave F." <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31/08/2011 02:04, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > I encourage use of this type of tag /primarily/ on /nodes/. > > The boundaries in most case are far too fluid to use this on areas. > > I tend to agree with Bryce. Quite often in the UK there are > disagreements where suburbs/neighbourhoods boundaries occur. > There's also boundary creep
when residents can address their property > as > being in an adjacent area when it's perceived to be a bit posher. > > I wish to reiterate that a polygon tagged as place/boundary should not > > be sub-tagged as landuse=residential. > > Glad to see we're using the British spelling of neighbourhood. Some > mappers state-side appear not to like the use of the letter U. > > Dave F. > The same situations occur in the USA. Neighborhood names can also shift over time. My neighborhood shows up on maps as "Murray Heights", probably dating back to the original real-estate development in the 1950's. In the 19 years I have lived here, I have never heard anyone call it by that name, but I have heard it referred to by the names of the two larger, adjacent neighborhoods. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
