[OSM-talk] RFC: place=locality

[Ulf Lamping]

Brent Easton schrieb:
> I have adsed a straightwordforward proposal to add the new tag
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> place=locality
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> All current place tags are for either populated areas, or for larger areas of County sized or bigger. The place=locality tag is useful for places that have a specific name, but do not necessarily have any geographic feature or population centre that could be used to attach a name tag to. The closest currently available is place=hamlet, but hamlet implies at least a small population centre.
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> I suggest that place=locality is rendered the same as place=hamlet.
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> Comments welcome on the proposed feature page.
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It's usually a good idea to add a link to that page, to encourage 
discussion ;-)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Locality

Regards, ULFL