I want to create a place for my neighborhood. I successfully followed these directions to extract the neighborhood boundaries from OpenStreetMap. But I’m stumped when choosing a “Place type” for my neighborhood. I can’t find any explanations about what each place type means. Are there any resource…

you don’t have to define a place type. when i created some neighborhoods in my city, i just left place type undefined and made the city the parent place.

I put mine as “subdivision” [image]

Thos categories are really really old and aren’t used. We should probably get rid of a lot of them. I wouldn’t worry about choosing one.

What "Place type" is a neighborhood?

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What "Place type" is a neighborhood?

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