Hello, Serge Wroclawski on 2013-06-21: > During the TIGER import, small neighborhoods were imported as hamlets.
> I'm wondering what other people's experience with the hamlets are. Are > they useful where you live? Are they nonsense (as they have been in > NYC and DC)? I've only seen a few around here in NC. Some, such as West Park[0], marked well-defined subdivisions, and I replaced them with areas. Another one, Green Level[1], is an "unincorporated community" with its own Wikipedia page, and place=hamlet actually seems to be correct. > I'm thinking that it might be worthwhile to take some kind of action, > either converting them to something else, or if there's really > consensus, deleting them. The ones that mark subdivisions may be doing more harm than good. However, the one that marked a hamlet was correct, and the hamlet could otherwise have been missed in survey, so deleting it would be a problem. > I realized only after last week's discussion about neighborhoods that > the hamlets (which are distinct from nehighborhoods) are the things > messing up the geocoder. A neighborhood is understood to be a place > that's not often in an address, but a hamlet is a village, and so a > hamlet in the middle of an urban place doesn't make sense. So a hamlet within municipal boundaries is almost certainly wrong. Could we try to detect which imported hamlets are within cities, and delete them or change them to place=neighbourhood? Sean Bartell [0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/204876141 [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/158391394 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
