First off, I like this proposal too and think it's a long time coming. But, some references made me go and read the place=suburb wiki page again, and that tag seems very similar, so can that distinction be clarified? That is, why would one choose suburb over city/town/village or neighbourhood? The distinctive thing about "suburb" as far as I can tell is that it's an area located outside a city center, and this distinction is pretty much self-evident from the map itself. Maybe there's a particular country or culture where suburb makes more sense.
Thanks, Brad On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected] > wrote: > 2011/8/31 John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>: > > "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. > > The same situations occur in the USA. > > > well, the proposal states that mapping as a node is fine. From a data > user point of view I'd prefer areas because they allow to estimate the > size (even if the boundaries might be fluid and not exact), but it's > the mappers that decide which representation is the best. > > > > Neighborhood names can also shift over time. > > > sure, everything changes. That's also one of the strengths of OSM (to > cope with that). > > > > 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. > > > so I guess in OSM your neighbourhood will get a different name then on > "maps". > > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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