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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09-Oct-17 06:13 PM, Graeme
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <span
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One problem is that 'locality' does not translate well.<br>
I'd think that any admin area would have someone resident
in the area.<br>
So tagging them OSM 'locality' may not be the best?<br>
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OSM says 'hamlet ' is less then 100-200 people. think that
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<div>But what do we do when those "few" people are spread
out over a largish area, with no central location?</div>
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<div>The area of Lamington in SEQ <a
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-28.2351/152.9940"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-28.2351/152.9940</a>,
was, I thought, originally a locality, but is now shown as
a hamlet.</div>
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<div>Wiki <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamington,_Queensland"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamington,_Queensland</a>
says that in 2011, it had a population of 463 people, but
they're spread out over probably 200km2, if not more?</div>
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<div>The "heart" of Lamington consists of 2 camping grounds,
5k apart, one of which has a cafe / recreation centre
(School camping type of arrangement) next door, <a
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.28710/153.03499"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.28710/153.03499</a>,
a handful of B&B's & farms & that's about
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<div>To me, it should probably be a locality as there's
nothing really there, a hamlet, IMHO, should feature a
central clump of at least some homes / buildings, that you
can point to & say "Yep, that's wherever" :-)</div>
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Yep. <br>
Tagging these area with 'place' may suit things where the population
density is high -e.g. Europe - but does not sit well here. <br>
These areas have no real centre. <br>
Should one of these areas be tested by leaving out the place tag and
see what happens? <br>
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