Best way to tag a city / town

richardbrinkman · 2008-10-03T09:17:49.000Z

I see different approaches for tagging a city. I normally tag it like:

name=…
boundary=administrative
admin_level=8
place=city (or town)
landuse=residential
layer=-1

However whatever I try, maplint marks it with the warning (“Not in map feature”), so it looks like I’m doing something wrong.
Is there some consensus how to tag a city or does anybody know whey maplint is complaining?

Lambertus · 2008-10-03T12:08:50.000Z

Not in map feature means that maplint does not recognise the tagging which doesn’t mean anything by itself. Think of it as not complaining but rather a notice.

richardbrinkman · 2008-10-03T12:44:32.000Z

I know, but since I see different ways to tag cities, I was wondering what the most common way is.