[Talk-us] Bay Area trailer parks: "hamlet" ? Also neighborhoods & cities
David Carmean
dlc at halibut.com
Sat Nov 29 16:53:59 GMT 2008
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:13:43PM -0800, Michal Migurski wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
What we're looking at appears to be the result of a mass import of US
Board on Geographic Names GNIS data. This data has only one feature class
for populated places, Populated Place. (Interestingly, I see that some
trailer parks are listed as Locales, which is supposed to be a place
without a permanent human population.)
The feature classes are listed here:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm
I can't find anything in the wiki/mailing list archives that Google
searches about this GNIS import.
In my mind, "hamlet" describes a tiny populated place that is outside
other city, town, or village boundaries. I'd call a trailer park within
a city a subdivision, where:
State > County > Metro Area > City > District > Neighborhood >
Subdivision
On the other hand, a trailer park within a small town might very well
constitute an entire Neighborhood.
I don't know how to reconcile this particular "L10n" with the needs of
"i18n".
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