If suburb is a commonly understood and useful concept in other countries then it seems good to keep it around. I don't really know what the implications are of retirement or what the process would be. I would instead advocate for country-specific guidance on its usage.
-- Brian On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:38 AM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:32 AM Brian Stromberg <[email protected]> > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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