[OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

[John Smith]

2009/11/13 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>:
> I like it, but I wonder whether the place=city should be on the way
> rather than on some miscellaneous node. I'm not sure I like the bodge
> that is admin_level's I had always thought of them as government
> administration borders. ....

It's also tagged as landuse=residential, but perhaps place=town would
be better than using admin_level...

> However they do server there purpose to mark town centres.

The town centre isn't always the centre of town :)