Tagging very small settlements/outposts

Communities ישראל (Israel)
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I wonder how very small makeshift settlements/outposts should be tagged. These are often -but not necessarily- illegal/unofficial.

They’re found in West Bank Area C(Jewish), or in the Negev (Bedouin camps).

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#2 and #3 above seem like editing errors. How many did you find? Did you try contacting the editors?

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I found 1 in the Negev and 2 in west bank area C but that was a very quick skim. I suspect there may be more. The editors don’t seem to know what the right tag should be.

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https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4231883176
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5150306223 (Editor reported it could actually be military)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/980145568

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Are you suggesting “hamlet” is the correct tagging for such places, no matter how small?

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The smaller types of the place tag are:

  • village - A smaller distinct settlement, smaller than a town with few facilities available with people traveling to nearby towns to access these.
  • hamlet - A smaller rural community, typically with fewer than 100-200 inhabitants, and few infrastructure.
  • isolated_dwelling - The smallest kind of settlement (1-2 households).

The difference between a village and a hamlet is not clear to me, but hamlet seems to be associated with smaller places that have more than 1-2 households.

By the way,

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A village can be significantly larger than a hamlet. Beit Jann (population ~ 11,000) is a village. Thousands of houses.

A hamlet is something you can traverse in minutes on foot. A couple dozen households.