[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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