[Talk-GB] place=village/town/city

[SK53]

On 12 February 2016 at 13:15, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> According to Wikipedia, it is country-dependent. As it is an English word,
> we should only discuss about its meaning in an English-speaking context.
> There is no such thing as a hamlet in Germany for example; they have
> different words with different semantics, which may or may not map onto
> English concepts.
> //colin
>

I think this is an example of where relying on wikipedia might be
unreliable.

German mappers have mapped lots (my browser gave out at 21k for Bavaria).
OK, some of these may be small villages & a cursory inspection suggests
that some may be closer to what we'd use place=locality for, but certainly
in alpine areas summer hamlets are an integral part of agricultural life.
Switzerland, which I know better and shares similar settlement patterns to
parts of Germany has 4800 hamlets cf. 3600 villages.
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