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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09-Oct-17 06:38 PM, Warin wrote:<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09-Oct-17 06:13 PM, Graeme
        Fitzpatrick wrote:<br>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <span
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                rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> 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 fits best?</blockquote>
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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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    <p>Looking at the place key <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place</a><br>
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      there are also non population specific places  that might suit <br>
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      district?<br>
      region?<br>
      province?<br>
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      These don't have good definitions on the OSMwiki. <br>
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