[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> I'm in favor of a bulk edit for US hamlets within city boundaries to be
> retagged as place=neighbourhood
>

I generally agree with this, as a first step.
Especially if there's a followup challenge of some sort to improve the
tagging with local knowledge.

Many many of the hamlets in the USA data are for towns that no longer
exist.  Some of those names
linger on as informal neighborhood names, but many don't.
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