[OSM-talk] Voting for place=isolated_dwelling is open

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed May 5 10:13:32 BST 2010


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > I agree to this,
but the name "isolated_dwelling" was the translation
> I finally found (neither in wikipedia nor in the dictionary) for the
> German scientific term "Einzelsiedlung", which describes the smallest
> entity of human settlements (below hamlets). I discourage the use of
> farm as this is about usage and not about the size. Examples for
> place=isolated_dwelling that are not farms are mills, forester's
> houses, small isolated trainstations, restaurants or "houses". Of
> course most isolated dwellings (at least in Germany) are indeed farms.

Sub-hamlet?

Steve




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