2011/8/31 Phil! Gold <[email protected]>: > * Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> [2011-08-31 14:33 +0200]: >> No, suburb is actually not necessarily outside the city (in OSM), it >> is used for central districts as well. > > I've often been confused by the suburb tag and maybe someone can clear it > up for me. > > The tags place=city, place=town, place=village, and place=hamlet are > mutually exclusive; if a spot is in a place=village, then it's not in an > adjacent place=town.
+1, that's how I see it as well. I'd also include place=isolated_dwelling to this list. > It seems to be that place=suburb is regarded as > hierarchically below place=city (at least); if a spot is in a > place=suburb, it could also be in a place=city. yes, I'd say it has to be part of some bigger entity (city, town, maybe even village). > Could the proposed place=neighbourhood > tag within a place=town or place=village be analogous to place=suburb > within a place=city? yes, and it could also be a place within a suburb. > (Assuming I'm correct here, I guess > place=neighbourhood would strictly be hierarchically below place=suburb, > so a suburb could comprise more than one neighborhood.) yes, there is some hierarchy, but I am not sure if it is _strictly_ hierarchical (a neighbourhood is smaller, but maybe there can be a neighbourhood whose limits despite being small do not perfectly coincede with those of the suburb hence making it part of 2 suburbs. I am not completely sure about this, maybe it's nonsense, I have no example from the real world that would prove the idea). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
