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. It seems to be that place=suburb is regarded as In US usage, suburb is a word used to refer to a town or perhaps even city which is considered associated with a larger city. There's a notion that most of the people that live in the suburb do so in order to be close to the larger city - and that's really what makes a town a suburb. This is not crisp, and there's no official standing -- there is no right or agreed on truth status for "town x is a suburb of city y" for at least many x and y. So based on that, there shouldn't be any place=suburb on the map. If suburb has a different meaning elsewhere, and we use that meaning in osm, it will be import to define it clearly and warn US people that their normal interpretation of the word is completely at odds with the osm definition.
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