Re: [Maposmatic-dev] place=locality #9699

[David MENTRE]

Hello Florian,

2012/9/7 Florian Lohoff <address@hidden>:
> There is a multitude of place= values which are definitly not a
> Village/City
>
>         farm
>         continent
>         county
>         island
>         locality
>         region
>         state
>
> These should all be ignored when building the index for Villages.

This is currently the case.

> It should more be a positive list of tag values which get listed -
> something like:
>
>         town
>         village
>         hamlet
>         isolated_dwelling
>         suburb

This is what is currently done:
  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic/ocitysmap.git/tree/ocitysmap/indexlib/indexer.py#n412
"""
       where trim(name) != ''
             and (place = 'locality'
                  or place = 'hamlet'
                  or place = 'isolated_dwelling')
"""

As as said, for this particular bug the issue is not technical but
political. What is the general OSM worldwide consensus about the use
of such tags? Is there such a consensus?

Best regards,
david