[Talk-us] Towns as Areas or Points

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 23:56 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> 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.

Depending on the size, I'll keep the tag (or bump it up to village)
when I copy the tags to the new multipolygon. But if it's just a
single small subdivision surrounded by others I'll remove the place
tag.