* Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> [2013-06-21 09:17 -0400]: > During the TIGER import, small neighborhoods were imported as hamlets.
I tend to think of the GNIS "hamlets" as small places-where-people-live. Around my section of the Baltimore suburbs, most of them are housing developments, apartment complexes, trailer parks or similar. Some, however, do correspond to things that people would more readily describe as towns or suburbs. (Interestingly, none of Baltimore's neighborhoods shoed up in the GNIS import. All of the GNIS place=* nodes stop at the city line.) For the most part, I retag these nodes as landuse=residential unless I am reasonably certain they correspond to a larger place designation, in which case I give them an appropriate place= value. I have something of an advantage based on my location, because nowhere in the immediate Baltimore metropolitan region is there a place that would qualify as a hamlet (because the suburbs are all wide-ranging enough to be place=village or, in some cases, place=town). Note that I usually leave the nodes tagged landuse=residential, unless I'm in the mood for figuring out subdividion boundaries based on subdivision plats. I know that the landuse= tags make more sense on areas than on nodes, but it seems more correct to me than leaving the node tagged place=hamlet. > 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 don't think they're "nonsense". I think most of them in my area don't qualify for place= tagging, but most of them do correspond to *something* that actually exists. (Not all; if I can't match a node to a place name or subdivision, I'll just delete it, but that's not tremendously common in my experience..) -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account. ---- --- -- _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
