[talk-au] The place Biniguy

[Warin]

On 09-Oct-17 06:13 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     One problem is that 'locality' does not translate well.
>     I'd think that any admin area would have someone resident in the area.
>     So tagging them OSM 'locality' may not be the best?
>
>     OSM says 'hamlet ' is less then 100-200 people. think that fits best?
>
>
> But what do we do when those "few" people are spread out over a 
> largish area, with no central location?
>
> The area of Lamington in SEQ 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-28.2351/152.9940, was, I 
> thought, originally a locality, but is now shown as a hamlet.
>
> Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamington,_Queensland says that in 
> 2011, it had a population of 463 people, but they're spread out over 
> probably 200km2, if not more?
>
> The "heart" of Lamington consists of 2 camping grounds, 5k apart, one 
> of which has a cafe / recreation centre (School camping type of 
> arrangement) next door, 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-28.28710/153.03499, a handful of 
> B&B's & farms & that's about it.
>
> To me, it should probably be a locality as there's nothing really 
> there, a hamlet, IMHO, should feature a central clump of at least some 
> homes / buildings, that you can point to & say "Yep, that's wherever" :-)
>

Yep.
Tagging these area with 'place' may suit things where the population 
density is high -e.g. Europe - but does not sit well here.
These areas have no real centre.
Should one of these areas be tested by leaving out the place tag and see 
what happens?
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