On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM, David Carmean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dlc@halibut.com">dlc@halibut.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:13:43PM -0800, Michal Migurski wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> There are a large number of mobile home / trailer parks mapped in San<br>
> Jose, Santa Clara, and other parts of the South Bay. They're tagged<br>
> place=hamlet, and I'm wondering if there's a better way to identify<br>
> them? Beej71, if you're on this list I think a lot of these came from<br>
> you.<br>
<br>
[snip]<br>
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What we're looking at appears to be the result of a mass import of US<br>
Board on Geographic Names GNIS data. This data has only one feature class<br>
for populated places, Populated Place. (Interestingly, I see that some<br>
trailer parks are listed as Locales, which is supposed to be a place<br>
without a permanent human population.)<br>
<br>
The feature classes are listed here:<br>
<a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm" target="_blank">http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm</a><br>
<br>
I can't find anything in the wiki/mailing list archives that Google<br>
searches about this GNIS import.<br>
<br>
In my mind, "hamlet" describes a tiny populated place that is outside<br>
other city, town, or village boundaries. I'd call a trailer park within<br>
a city a subdivision, where:<br>
<br>
State > County > Metro Area > City > District > Neighborhood ><br>
Subdivision<br>
<br>
On the other hand, a trailer park within a small town might very well<br>
constitute an entire Neighborhood.<br>
<br>
I don't know how to reconcile this particular "L10n" with the needs of<br>
"i18n".<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I agree, this sounds like the sort of hierarchy I had in mind, too.<br><br>Karl<br>