[OSM-talk] tag for suburb of village

[Claudius Henrichs]

Am 24.03.2009 12:04, James Stewart:
> 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?

Why not tag a node with place=suburb + name=blabla ? See the 
documentation for reference: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb

Regards,
Claudius