I know I'm following up late (I am dreadfully behind on talk{,-us}
mail).Two separate points: I think it's important not to conflate a logical concept that we can define for a tag and what some word means in many jurisdictions. In Mass, there are cities and towns (which are really the same thing, with different forms of government). But within each, there are place names that people use to refer to particular sections, usually something that feeels like a village center but is not the current town center. Historically towns have gotten smaller and in the 1680-1900 time frame these non-town named places would split off and become towns. On point 2, I just searched for "Gleasondale, Mass" which is a place name that everyone in the two bordering towns knows, and sure enough it's tagged as a hamlet, probably from GNIS. But this is correct data - if you asked a local, you'd get the same answer. I looked up a few others and got sensible results. The bug is probably that these hamlets should be indexed as subunits of the towns they are in, rather than first-class entities. I'm not claiming this applies to NYC names, but "Hell's Kitchen", "Chelsea", "Meatpacking District" probably are fair. I found 2 out of 3 of those in OSM.
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