[Talk-us] Dealing with types of places (possibly US-specific)?

Val Kartchner val42k at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 05:42:28 BST 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:34 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> What place=* values should be used for unincorporated places? In some
> states villages are incorporated; do we skip this value? Do we use
> suburb at all, or is everything village or hamlet?

There should be something between 1000 and 2, but there isn't.  A lot of
the place names that were loaded with TIGER data are subdivisions.
There is no "place" key for such small places.

- Val -




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