[Talk-us] Bay Area trailer parks: "hamlet" ? Also neighborhoods & cities

Michal Migurski mike at stamen.com
Fri Nov 28 20:13:43 GMT 2008


Hi,

There are a large number of mobile home / trailer parks mapped in San  
Jose, Santa Clara, and other parts of the South Bay. They're tagged  
place=hamlet, and I'm wondering if there's a better way to identify  
them? Beej71, if you're on this list I think a lot of these came from  
you.

Examples here:
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.3995&lon=-122.01521&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFT
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.37096&lon=-121.89402&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

"Hamlet" is supposed to be "defined by national/state/provincial  
government" yet these aren't really defined by anyone except their  
owners. I personally view them as generally equivalent to named  
apartment complexes, and therefore not a place. May I suggest that  
they be redrawn as landuse=residential areas, with names defined?

On a related topic, I'm also wondering how to handle parts of cities  
that are "places" or neighborhoods yet not administratively distinct,  
e.g. "West Oakland" (Oakland), "The Mission" (SF), etc. Would  
place=neighborhood make sense here?

This part of West Oakland with two named apartment complexes (all  
place=hamlet) illustrates what I mean:
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.8096&lon=-122.29504&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

-mike.

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