On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > > One problem is that 'locality' does not translate well. > I'd think that any admin area would have someone resident in the area. > So tagging them OSM 'locality' may not be the best? > > OSM says 'hamlet ' is less then 100-200 people. think that fits best?
But what do we do when those "few" people are spread out over a largish area, with no central location? The area of Lamington in SEQ http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-28.2351/152.9940, was, I thought, originally a locality, but is now shown as a hamlet. Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamington,_Queensland says that in 2011, it had a population of 463 people, but they're spread out over probably 200km2, if not more? The "heart" of Lamington consists of 2 camping grounds, 5k apart, one of which has a cafe / recreation centre (School camping type of arrangement) next door, http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.28710/153.03499, a handful of B&B's & farms & that's about it. To me, it should probably be a locality as there's nothing really there, a hamlet, IMHO, should feature a central clump of at least some homes / buildings, that you can point to & say "Yep, that's wherever" :-) Thanks Graeme
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