I have just finished mapping over 550 Hutterite Colonies. If you don’t know what that it, it is an intentional rural community that cannot rightly be called farm, hamlet, village, or town. So I discovered someone has already used a tag that has not been properly added into the database called “community” So I used it. The only issue is that because the tag has not been accepted, it does not show up in any of the offline maps. Can someone help? asked 25 Aug '21, 14:49 tschettervictor
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answered 26 Aug '21, 06:44 Kovoschiz |
If it is an " it is an intentional rural community" why, in OSM terms, is it not a "farm, hamlet, village, or town"?
In addition to Someelse's comment, note that not all objects are rendered on OSM, nor should they be. Remember, anybody can create a new tag — it's part of the nature of OSM to allow mappers to create new tags — but whether it renders or not depends on other factors such as acceptance by the rest of OSM. If every new tag were rendered immediately it would require an entire staff of dedicated geographers, linguists, etc., to verify and validate them.
If you really need to see those "communities" on a useful map, you might consider creating your own maps using OSM data.
The reason is that none of the mentioned places describes them.
They have churches and major infrastructure
Don't read any descriptions you found too literally. Just apply common sense and take what comes closest.
If those communities have or have not churches but only few shops or restaurants and people would regularly go the next bigger settlement for shopping or leisure make them
place=village
. If they have more shops and smaller amenities and people can get most things they need for daily life make themplace=town
. If they even have museums, theaters, major public services etc. make themplace=city
. No need for an additional tag.All this applies to any settlement, Hutterite or not.
Ok sure.
They are basically a community of people living together on a farm and providing for each other. There are no shops or any of that. Kind of like a big family (50 to 100 people)
Is there a way I could mass edit their tags instead of now having to find all 557 of them and individually change their tags?
I'm simply watching, here. Fascinating.
What would you suggest?😁