[Talk-GB] Changing place types arbitrarily

SK53 sk53.osm at gmail.com
Wed May 25 09:27:10 UTC 2022


This changeset is clearly wrong. Hounslow has been mapped as a town for
something like 15 years on OSM. That represents significant consensus.

As Mark says quarter is currently a modish word used by councils to big-up
parts of the city centre (Nottingham has "the Creative Quarter" which
locals have called "The Lace Market" or Hockley (after a street) for
generations; Derby and Leicester (I think) both have "Cathedral" quarters.
The French "quartier" is probably more equivalent to place=neighbourhood
anyway, which is how the Derby one has been mapped
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3275207163>. So I dont think
place=quarter is in common usage in the UK.

I've reverted it for now as such changes really need to be discussed when
they override a long-standing consensus.

Jerry

The user making the changes appears to be familiar with a US-style
terminology.

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 09:39, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 25/05/2022 09:30, Phillip Barnett wrote:
> > ‘Quarter’ is not really an English term. Mostly seems to be overseas
> > usage - I associate it with the US
>
> When I lived in Stoke-on-Trent, the city council decided to designate
> the area around the theatres and museums as the "Cultural Quarter" in an
> attempt to make it sound posher than it really is. It used to be a
> standing joke that Stoke doesn't really have a cultural quarter - it
> barely has a cultural sixteenth!
>
> Mark
>
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