On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Ed Loach <e...@loach.me.uk> wrote: > Perhaps something could be done similar to boundary with so many > admin_levels and some sort of default mapping from the existing 4 > places to their new numeric equivalent (a bit like footway and some > combination of tags including highway=path are equivalent as far as > I can tell). This would allow areas around the world to use > intermediate levels should they wish to, if their societal structure > makes such use appropriate.
That could be an option, but it is not backwards compatible. It would, however, make it easior to adapt to various cultures. The place name structure must work in a number of different situations, just to mention a few: - A metropolis like Tokyo or Los Angeles, often constisting of what is considered a number of "smaller" cities. - An island like Crete, where the mountains are literally scattered with little towns and hamlets quite close together (example from Douglas Furlong in another thread). - Norwegian rural areas, where villages are just areas where the houses are somewhat closer than outside of villages. > I'd probably add suburb somewhere between town and village, and > allow perhaps 2 spare levels between each of those 5 categories, and > perhaps a couple either side as well, though can't imagine what gets > smaller than hamlet - "isolated house" perhaps? "Regions within a town or city" is of course another problem, with only suburb available today. - Gustav
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