[Talk-GB] Changing place types arbitrarily

[Jez Nicholson]

I think that we should ignore our dislike for the meaning of the term
'quarter' and see it for how it is used in OSM elsewhere in the world "part
of a bigger settlement where this part is smaller than a suburb"
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dquarter It is being used to
give a loose hierarchy  town/city -> borough/suburb -> quarter
-> neighbourhood.

I'm not a fan of categories and hierarchies in OSM at the best of times, so
don't shoot me.

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 8:40 AM Robert Skedgell <rob at hubris.org.uk> wrote:

> 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>
>
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