[Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

[Val Kartchner]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 23:56 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> 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

Subdivisions (planned communities in the U.S.) are currently tagged
(from TIGER data) as hamlets.  They would show up at the same level as
the hamlets of which they are parts.

- Val -