[Talk-GB] Changing place types arbitrarily

[Robert Skedgell]

Quarter in the UK is generally a marketing term used by property 
developers and estate agents. If a real place, rather than a new 
development gets changed to a quarter, it's probably vandalism.

@BorekSigar has a little form, having arbitrarily deleted a number of 
former orchard trees which another mapper had tagged with species. I 
reverted this and hopefully improved the original tagging.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/116382236
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/116382250

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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 25 May 2022, at 08:38, Steven Hirschorn 
>> <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> I saw this changeset locally - should people be randomly changing 
>> place=suburb to place=quarter, especially if place=suburb seems to be 
>> consistent with other similar areas? I see the user has had changesets 
>> disputed before.
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121382067 
>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121382067>