[Tagging] Boundaries for suburbs

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 06:46:45 GMT 2011


On 2/25/2011 12:10 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
> I am interest in knowing the best way to do this as well. I'm working
> on mapping my area, which is called Burke Centre, which is further
> divided into five "neighborhoods", and those are broken down into a
> further 65 "clusters". The one cluster I've labeled is just a way:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/98921468
>
> I didn't even think to give it a place tag!
>
> Sorry, not much feedback to give, but interest in others opinions!

I don't think boundary=administrative is appropriate. I'd use 
landuse=residential name=* with no other tags for a simple subdivision. 
This ends up rendering reasonably: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.4285&lon=-81.4944&zoom=14&layers=M



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