[Tagging] Clarification unclassified vs residential
Mark Wagner
mark+osm at carnildo.com
Wed Feb 27 19:04:13 UTC 2019
On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:23:52 +0100
Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> sent from a phone
>
> > On 27. Feb 2019, at 08:56, Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > The best way I've found to identify "real" hamlets is the presence
> > of a cemetery.
>
>
> in Europe hamlets will typically not have their own cemetery, here it
> is a characteristic of a village (traditionally it will be
> churchyards, i.e. a burial place within the sacred area of a church,
> hamlets don’t have churches (around here).
That's another Europe/US difference. In the United States, a cemetery
almost never has a church, and a church almost never has a place to
perform burials.
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Mark
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