One thing adding to the confusion is that suburb has different definitions at different places on the wiki. Based on this conversation, here's what I'm hearing: "A named area within a city, town or possibly village that is generally larger than a neighbourhood, and may contain multiple neighbourhoods." There's discussion on some wiki pages about other attributes for suburbs, but I'm not sure those are really relevant (ie if it has a government, how it came into the city, where it's located). Am I getting close?
Thanks, Brad On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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