[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Proposed Japan tagging/Places

[gyotoku810]

> On 18 May 2022, at 09:00, Sarah Hoffmann via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> My main question is: will the proposal only affect city areas or
> do you also plan to change tagging of place=town/village/hamlet
> in the countryside?

This proposal affects all areas in Japan.

In Japan, the distinction between "urban" and "rural" areas is 
impossible or extremely subjective. Therefore, it is very difficult to 
apply the Wiki description directly to Japan.

We understand that the current use of place=* tags in Japan deviates 
from the Wiki description, but we think there is no other way to 
represent place names under municipalities.

> As this is a proposal to reflect administrative realities, it does not need (and should not interfere) with “place”
> People in the past have created place values for many kinds of administrative entities as well, but it isn’t useful, the important tags for administrative divisions are represented with  boundary=administrative and admin_level=*
> Place can in principle be seen as orthogonal to the current administrative organization, it is about the identity of a place (history, culture, sociological), and if it is just duplicating information about administrative entity  we do not need it.
> 
> Cheers Martin 

It is thought that administrative place names are the identity of a 
place in Japan in many cases and users also need such information.

If using boundary=administrative, it must be drawn as a way or area, but 
we would like to represent administrative place names by nodes since 
precise boundary information is not yet available.

gyotoku810