[talk-au] The place Biniguy

[Warin]

On 09-Oct-17 06:38 PM, Warin wrote:
> 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?

Looking at the place key https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place

there are also non population specific places  that might suit

district?
region?
province?

These don't have good definitions on the OSMwiki.

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