2009/9/12 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laff...@gmail.com>: > 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).
I wouldn't interpret it as that, I would have said a ghost town, ie a town that once existed but no one lives there any more. Any place with people is either a hamlet, village, town, suburb or city. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
