[OSM-talk-be] Using the tag place=neighbourhood

[Georges De Gruyter]

Wouldn't it be better then to use the "wijken" as stipulated in the site of
the city as "suburbs" :

http://oostende.be/wijkinfo

Kind regards,
Georges

2012/6/24 Gerard Vanderveken <Ghia at ghia.eu>

> **
> Hi,
>
> I woukld not change it
> place=hamlet. fits fine for Mariakerke
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NL:Map_Features#Plaats_.28place.29
> Hamlets typically do have a church and form a separate community.
> suburbs are districts in cities, while neighbourhoods are more  a group of
> rural isolated  houses (all without churches)
> That's what I think of it.
>  Regards,
> Gerard.
>
> Sander Deryckere wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm busy drawing and correcting boundaries in W-VL. And for Oostende, I
> have a strange issue (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oostende).
>
> The deelgemeenten of Oostende are Zandvoorde and Stene (as those are the
> only ones that were still independent before the fusion of the 70's). The
> hamlet Raversijde used to be part of Middelkerke, and it's still rather
> separated from the main centre of Oostende.
>
> But Mariakerke was completely merged with Oostende in 1899 (so it can't be
> considered as a deelgemeente). Because it isn't a deelgemeente, this
> automatically means it should get the tag place=hamlet. This while
> Mariakerke has over 10.000 inhabitants, so it should deserve a title
> place=town when it wasn't merged so soon.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Places
>
> I would like to use the tag place=neigbourhood for Mariakerke.
>
> What do you think about the following definition?
>
> When the place has the name of a municipality or a deelgemeente, the
> definitions stay as they are
>
> When the place doesn't have the name of a municipality or deelgemeente,
> the tags place=hamlet and place=neighbourhood are used
>
> place=hamlet is used when the residential area is clearly separated from
> other residential areas.
> place=neighbourhood is used when the residential area is part of the
> residential area of a city, town or village.
>
> This follows my feeling about a hamlet being something rural, while a
> neighbourhood is part of a bigger residential area. And it also follows the
> international conventions (more or less) on the wiki:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Place
>
> Regards,
> Sander
>
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