2011/9/28 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com>: > Martin, I'm not sure the NYC example is helping. You mentioned this was > discussed on the German mailing list--can you give some other examples from > Germany (or whereever) about how this might be used? Thanks, Brad
You might have a look at Rome (we are currently discussing about how to deal with the various toponyms on the local ML, so consider this preliminary): On the administrative level there is the comune di Roma (admin_level=8) municipalities (admin_level=10) and zone urbanistiche (urban zones, admin_level=11) [1] In settlement geography (toponyms) there is * suburbs (OSM definition): quartieri, suburbi and zone dell'Agro [2] maybe also some of the "other toponyms" (see [3]) * quarters: Rioni, other toponyms used by the locals (the bigger places), often called after an important monument or a geographical feature [3] * neighbourhoods: other toponyms (smaller places) like Lottizzazioni, Piani di Zona, other Toponyms as listed in [4] __________________ Sorry that I linked the Italian pages, but the English ones weren't satisfying. Probably not all settlements will have all levels. According to the size you will be able to map parts of settlements with these proposed new values and give the map recipient an idea about the level of the part in respect to the other entities around. Tagging a part of a village as suburb would be misleading because this part will not have the same importance or size like the part of a big city, so you could decide to tag it place=neighbourhood (without having any "suburb" or "quarter" in the village). On the other hand, like you can see in Rome or in NYC, having just 2 levels for the parts is not sufficient for big cities. Cheers, Martin _______________________ [1] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipi_di_Roma http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Zone_Urbanistiche_di_Roma (probably, awaiting confermation that these are administrative and their boundaries correspond to the municipalities without intersection) [2] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartieri_di_Roma http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbi_di_Roma http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_di_Roma (maybe) [3] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rioni_di_Roma http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddivisioni_di_Roma#Altri_Toponimi [4] http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddivisioni_di_Roma#Altri_Toponimi _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
