That is another strategy I have tried - the residential area tagged
with a name. This works OK for small neighbourhoods, but name can be
rendered rather small for larger ones. Again, it involves drawing a
border, which is fine it is clear and known, but then we might as well
use boundary.
In some ways the way that the name is rendered should be related to
the tag "is_in" - so in general members of a place have names rendered
smaller than the parent. But I am sure there are problems with this
both theortical and practical.
James
On 24 Mar 2009, at 11:45, D Tucny wrote:
2009/3/24 James Stewart <[email protected]>
How are we to mark the 'suburb' of a village... or at least the name
of a district or neighbourhood in a village or small town. I tend to
have to use hamlet to make sure that it does not appear at several
zoom levels higher than the main village. Should we not have an new
tag for neighbourhood. If one knows the boundary, one can use that
with admin_level=10, but often we do not know exact boundaries, maybe
oneone does.
Any thoughts, guidance?
I've used landuse=residential and named it where I've named what are
effectively neighbourhoods before when I've known the boundary,
though in my case, they were urban residential areas... I'm not sure
how 'correct' this is, but, the landuse is residential and there is
a name associated with it, so in my mind at least it carries a
certain amount of correctness... I'm not sure how 'correct' an
admin_level would be as I don't believe they necessarily have a
separation in administration...
There's something being discussed at the moment in the OSM
Philippines community regarding addressing that's sort of related...
Barangays, Puroks and Sitios, though Barangays at least are
officially an administrative division...
Maybe using hamlet is the best solution as the meaning is closest...
or... maybe as you say, it's time for a new neighbourhood tag so
that the most accurate meaning is captured... I'm not sure... The
different levels of 'place' within a country when you look at the
accompanying differences in 'urbanness', 'ruralness', population or
'importantness' get vague and confusing enough, factor in other
countries and there are just too many dimensions :)
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