[OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

[James Stewart]

That is another strategy I have tried - the residential area tagged  
with a name. This works OK for small neighbourhoods, but name can be  
rendered rather small for larger ones. Again, it involves drawing a  
border, which is fine it is clear and known, but then we might as well  
use boundary.
In some ways the way that the name is rendered should  be related to  
the tag "is_in" - so in general members of a place have names rendered  
smaller than the parent. But I am sure there are problems with this  
both theortical and practical.

James

On 24 Mar 2009, at 11:45, D Tucny wrote:

> 2009/3/24 James Stewart <j.k.stewart at ed.ac.uk>
> How are we to mark the 'suburb' of a village... or at least the name
> of a district or neighbourhood in a village or small town. I tend to
> have to use hamlet to make sure that it does not appear at several
> zoom levels higher than the main village. Should we not have an new
> tag for neighbourhood. If one knows the boundary, one can use that
> with admin_level=10, but often we do not know exact boundaries, maybe
> oneone does.
> Any thoughts, guidance?
>
> I've used landuse=residential and named it where I've named what are  
> effectively neighbourhoods before when I've known the boundary,  
> though in my case, they were urban residential areas... I'm not sure  
> how 'correct' this is, but, the landuse is residential and there is  
> a name associated with it, so in my mind at least it carries a  
> certain amount of correctness... I'm not sure how 'correct' an  
> admin_level would be as I don't believe they necessarily have a  
> separation in administration...
>
> There's something being discussed at the moment in the OSM  
> Philippines community regarding addressing that's sort of related...  
> Barangays, Puroks and Sitios, though Barangays at least are  
> officially an administrative division...
>
> Maybe using hamlet is the best solution as the meaning is closest...  
> or... maybe as you say, it's time for a new neighbourhood tag so  
> that the most accurate meaning is captured... I'm not sure... The  
> different levels of 'place' within a country when you look at the  
> accompanying differences in 'urbanness', 'ruralness', population or  
> 'importantness' get vague and confusing enough, factor in other  
> countries and there are just too many dimensions :)
>
> d

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