Place classification - town vs suburb, remote rural areas, how does a CDP relate to place

[aighes (Henning)]

That thread might be helpful as well:

New England place name inflation

Recently I’ve noticed quite a few more village names displaying more prominently than I remembered on the standard layer in my state (Vermont). It looks like someone systematically went through the state ensuring that every municipality contained a place=town node with the same name. This is a very rural state with many municipalities containing only small settlements that really only qualify as place=village or place=hamlet. Prior to these edits several months ago (example), the state had a …