[Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-08-31 07:47, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
>...
>It just makes no sense to me that an area with this high population
>and population density [Silver Spring, MD] is labeled a hamlet.

Particularly when it seems that hamlet is also used for mobile home parks 
(commonly 50-500 residents) in the GNIS data.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>