[Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

[Karson Sommer]

I agree with the way it was already mapped. Subdivisions should be mapped
as areas tagged with landuse=residential, place=neighborhood, and name=* if
it is named.

Looking around the area of the edit, there is a lot of stuff from my
perspective that seems fishy. There are a bunch of place=hamlet nodes? I
certainly don't see anything that should be tagged as a hamlet, they all
look like place=neighborhood to me. Each of these nodes should be mapped
onto an explicit residential area.

I'm not sure why the people in the changeset comments seem to think that a
subdivision != neighborhood. Per the OSM Wiki definition,

A *neighbourhood* is a named, geographically localised place. It may be an
area within a place <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=suburb
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb> or place
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=quarter
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dquarter> of a larger
settlement (such as a large place
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=city
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity>) or an area within a
smaller settlement (such as a place
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=town
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dtown> or a place
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place>=village
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dvillage>).

A subdivision just means a residential area with one developer. This means
all the houses will be in the same architectural style, same age, and can
be located using the subdivision name. This is the textbook definition of a
neighborhood.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:16 PM Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> Thoughts on use of place=neighborhood for subdivisions?
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/91255294
>
>    Note that there are many thousands already tagged this way (5000 plus
> in a section of the southeast alone).
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