[OSM-talk] We need urgently a clarification between place locality, farm and isolated_dwelling

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/5/28 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good to see that nobody cares about the wiki inconsistencies of 'locality'.


give us some time, not everybody can read everything within some hours.

>>> at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Locality:
>
> I would delete the first sentence: "All current place tags are for
> either populated areas, or for larger areas of County sized or
> bigger."


+1
place tags contain actually 2 types of features:
human settlements (city, town, ...)
geographic features (vulcano, locality, ...)

and farms ;-)

>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place :
>
> Seems consistent.
>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places
>
> Seems consistent.
>
>>> place=isolated_dwelling:
>>> at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Places
>>> - missing


that's why I asked to add it...

cheers,
Martin