On 17/04/19 15:48, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 12:21, Joseph Eisenberg
<joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have reviewed all the features tagged as place=locality in 2 places
in the USA and 2 in Europe, and found that 3 out of 4, place=locality
is usually used for features that could be tagged with a more specific
tag.
Thanks for your extremely detailed research Joseph!
Have just done some checking around our area & found that a lot of the
place=locality listings should probably be =suburb or =neighbourhood
(& a lot of them were done by me, so I'll have to go in & fix them all!).
Couple to get an opinion on though, please.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4313816641#map=14/-28.1502/153.3205 is
Austinville, which is the area located along the length of Austinville
Road. Austinville is a valid locality name, but there is no actual
spot you can point to & say that's Austinville - there are no shops,
petrol station etc, only houses / farms & a Community Hall.
What would it be if it's not a =locality? =village / hamlet / suburb /
neighbourhood?
Same thing for Springbrook:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4316622215#map=14/-28.1872/153.2702,
which is the area on top of Springbrook Mountain. Once again, fairly
sparsely populated - maybe 500?, but no distinct centre of town,
except one general store, a Primary School & a handful of cafe's.
There are a few others around that are similar - they have a
population, but there are only 100 - 200 people living in an area of
200+ sq k - seems way to sparse to be labelled as village or anything
similar?
Hamlets too me.
If it has a store, cafes and a school probably a village? Petrol?
Does look like place=locality has been a catch all for when mappers did
not know of another more detailed tag.
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