<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 12:21, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have reviewed all the features tagged as place=locality in 2 places<br>
in the USA and 2 in Europe, and found that 3 out of 4, place=locality<br>
is usually used for features that could be tagged with a more specific<br>
tag.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your extremely detailed research Joseph!</div><div><br></div><div>Have just done some checking around our area & found that a lot of the place=locality listings should probably be =suburb or =neighbourhood (& a lot of them were done by me, so I'll have to go in & fix them all!).</div><div><br></div><div>Couple to get an opinion on though, please.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4313816641#map=14/-28.1502/153.3205">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4313816641#map=14/-28.1502/153.3205</a> is Austinville, which is the area located along the length of Austinville Road. Austinville is a valid locality name, but there is no actual spot you can point to & say that's Austinville - there are no shops, petrol station etc, only houses / farms & a Community Hall.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What would it be if it's not a =locality? =village / hamlet / suburb / neighbourhood?</div><div><br></div><div>Same thing for Springbrook: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4316622215#map=14/-28.1872/153.2702">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4316622215#map=14/-28.1872/153.2702</a>, which is the area on top of Springbrook Mountain. Once again, fairly sparsely populated - maybe 500?, but no distinct centre of town, except one general store, a Primary School & a handful of cafe's. </div><div><br></div><div>There are a few others around that are similar - they have a population, but there are only 100 - 200 people living in an area of 200+ sq k - seems way to sparse to be labelled as village or anything similar?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div>