[Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

[Val Kartchner]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:23 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote:
> 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.

The wiki says that hamlet is "<1000".  The only place possibly smaller
is suburb, but no population is given.  There should be some place types
below hamlet.

For instance, an actual hamlet would have the same priority for
rendering as a mobile home park (as above) or any number of subdivisions
in said hamlet.  The subdivisions of said hamlet should be rendered only
at high zoom levels and in a smaller font than the hamlet, but currently
the leftmost one is most likely to be rendered and they will all be
rendered in the same font.

1) Should this be fixed? (YES!)
2) How do we fix it?

- Val -