<div dir="ltr"><div>If suburb is a commonly understood and useful concept in other countries then it seems good to keep it around. I don't really know what the implications are of retirement or what the process would be. I would instead advocate for country-specific guidance on its usage.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--<br>Brian</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:38 AM Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 8:32 AM Brian Stromberg <<a href="mailto:brian.stromberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.stromberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This contradicts the OSM wiki but seems like the only way to avoid confusion. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Much like sport=american_football vs sport=soccer, this makes sense. Maybe it's time to retire place=suburb as a tag due to its ambiguity?</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The only reason I can think of to use 'suburb' as a tag in the context of the United States would be if a tag indicating 'central city' or something similar was introduced.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ostensibly, that's what place=city was supposed to be, but not helping OSM would be that some places have cities and towns of different legal importance (Oklahoma), or "it's a city or it's not a city" with no room for nuance (Oregon). Not making things any easier is how lopsided populations are in the US, a midsize municipality is about 5500 people. Once you get to about 90,000, you're in the top 2% largest anything in the US.</div></div></div>
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