What about those tagged as landuse=residential? On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > I've looked at the two OSM Wiki pages about "neighbourhoods" > (everyone, note the "u" since we're using British spelling mostly in > OSM): > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dneighbourhood > > I agree that we can use this to tag subdivisions, urban puroks, urban > sitios, and the like. > > place=subdivision is non-standard and place=hamlet is not appropriate > since these are used for small rural settlements (maybe we can use for > rural puroks and sitios?). place=locality, which one local mapper has > been using to tag subdivisions, seems inappropriate too since it's > meant to be used for named but unpopulated places. > > Eugene > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Rally de Leon <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Earlier schadow1 (Ervin) posted under subject_line: "[OSMPH GPS:14] place= ?" >> on [email protected] regarding proper tag for "subdivision". >> >> I took the opportunity (on my usual lengthy reply ;-) cc:talk-ph) to >> propose/push for a more appropriate substitute tag >> "place=neighborhood" for many inconsistently tagged node-places such >> as subdivision, locality and hamlet by lots of users (including me). >> >> This is just a follow-up. I already stated my case/proposal in my >> reply, but I may also be wrong on this, (being lazy on extensive >> research). I need to hear your reactions, votes and/or >> counter-proposals, coz this is going to affect a lot of your edits, >> including the potential none-rendering of many sub-village >> named-places in PH on Mapnik. >> >> The issue at the moment with nodes (and polygons tagged >> landuse=residential) tagged with place=neighbourhood is no rendering >> on Mapnik. https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4191 >> >> Other references: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Neighbourhood >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place >> >> We have to admit that this seemingly simple place-classification is >> still confusing for many, as evidenced on edits by old and new users >> still using inconsistent tags. We must do something about it sooner or >> later. So how do we proceed? Do we start promoting & educating on the >> use of "neighbourhood" or status quo until rendering issue is >> resolved? >> >> Rally :-) > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
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