[OSM-talk] How to map quarters?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:25:51 +0200, Pieren wrote:

> No, it's not a renderer problem, it is just different things. I'm not a
> native english speaker but if I translate "suburb" and "quarters", it is
> two different things. The first applies to cities (maybe big towns as
> well), the second is much smaller. Instead of reusing improperly
> existing tags or creating complex combinations (with e.g. tag
> population) or re-introduce the infamous "is_in" tag, we should simply
> create a new tag place=quarters or place=district which could apply to
> villages or small towns and where "suburb" is simply inappropriate.

I also would argue that we need place=quarters tag, as there are also 
places of city that I live on that are administrative separate places 
within a city, and clearly defined.



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