On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:32 AM Brian Stromberg <brian.stromb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This contradicts the OSM wiki but seems like the only way to avoid > confusion. > Much like sport=american_football vs sport=soccer, this makes sense. Maybe it's time to retire place=suburb as a tag due to its ambiguity? > The only reason I can think of to use 'suburb' as a tag in the context of > the United States would be if a tag indicating 'central city' or something > similar was introduced. > Ostensibly, that's what place=city was supposed to be, but not helping OSM would be that some places have cities and towns of different legal importance (Oklahoma), or "it's a city or it's not a city" with no room for nuance (Oregon). Not making things any easier is how lopsided populations are in the US, a midsize municipality is about 5500 people. Once you get to about 90,000, you're in the top 2% largest anything in the US.
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