[Talk-us] Bay Area trailer parks: "hamlet" ? Also neighborhoods & cities
Karl Newman
siliconfiend at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 00:56:42 GMT 2008
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM, David Carmean <dlc at halibut.com> wrote:
> 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".
>
I agree, this sounds like the sort of hierarchy I had in mind, too.
Karl
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