[Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Mapnik renders suburb in a larger font than hamlet/village, which
implies that it's more major. I think it's an official government
designation in Australia.

For subdivisions and small planned communities I draw the border and
create a multipolygon with landuse=residential and no place=* tag:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=28.4669&lon=-81.5045&zoom=14&layers=M