[OSM-talk] How to map quarters?

[Frankie Roberto]

2009/9/11 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>

> Any ideas why we don't have "quarter" tag?
> >
> >
> Well I mentioned it before, but I really believe that for something like
> the French Quarter, it is better to use locality.
>

I've always used suburb, but locality might be a good alternative.

Another question is: is it better to map quarters as areas or nodes?

Somewhere like Paris has distinct boundaries to it arrondisments (which also
define post code areas), but in others cities, 'quarters' are more
colloquial, used informally, or in the marketing of a city. For instance, in
Manchester, there's a map of the city divided into quarters published by the
tourism board (http://visitmanchester.com/maps.aspx#citymap_anchor) but most
of those boundaries look pretty made up to me (and some of the names as
well).

So in these cases, it's probably easier to map as a node. But if there is a
rough boundary, that's reasonably well understood by locals, but has no
legal or physical basis, then is it ok to map that as an area?

Frankie

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Frankie Roberto
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