[Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

[Lester Caine]

On 14/09/15 14:23, Richard Symonds wrote:
> Is there any reason that a place can't be both?
> eg.
> "defines self as=town"
> "defines self as=village"
> "defined by X as village"
> 
> Or the like?

The obvious answer is that unless one adds some sort of filter it will
get counted twice? Once as a town and once as a village. There should
only be one place entry in OSM or so the
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place?uselang=en-GB says. I'm not
sure but adding a second place tag should not work I think. Place is
part of the hierarchy of a location on OSM, so having it appear as both
a town and village would be confusing on searches.

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