[OSM-talk] Proposal for place=suburb core tag value

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 19 Sep 2006 03:43, Mike Collinson wrote:
> I've added the proposal
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Suburb
>
> I'm currently mapping Sydney and have been using the place=town and
> place=village to visually identify the various suburbs.  Apart from
> being smaller than a city, I don't think they correlate well and
> propose this separate category.
>
> I wonder what those mapping large European cities feel?
>
> Mike
> Oz

Good idea... I've used place=suburb in a few instances in Southampton (a 
moderate-sized UK city, population about 250,000)

Nick