John Smith wrote: > From the map features page: > > place=locality An unpopulated, named place. > > I'm pretty sure what you guys are discussing involves large numbers of > people, so please don't abuse this tag which is already used for a > completely different purpose already. > > From the same (I suppose) page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Locality The place <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=*locality* tag is useful for places that have a specific name, but do not necessarily have any geographic feature or population centre that could be used to attach a name tag to.
Please note that he NOT NECESSARILY, which implies, I believe, that you could have population associated with it. Of course, I might be wrong since English is not my main language. I am probably misunderstanding the examples that are given especially the last line. A "quartier" is not necessarily big; actually, in France, they tend to be rather small with hundreds of people contained in a fuzzy area. They are very small areas usually. My hometown of 20K inhabitants have at least 20 of those named areas (The density is quite high due to some appartments complex). Emilie Laffray
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