Post #3063708

2025-12-01 18:26 UTC

@mdione@en.osm.town @amapanda@en.osm.town As I've been thoroughly nerdsniped I may as well keep going. Same query as above, but specifically for place=hamlet and place=locality. This confirms that Galicia really does have an unusually high hamlet density. So do Brittany and parts of Bavaria and southern Poland. Separately, Spain seems to have a roughly NW to SE gradient for locality. I have no real explanation for that. Eastern France and Slovakia are also prominent here.

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@alan@en.osm.town 2025-12-01 18:59

@mdione@en.osm.town @amapanda@en.osm.town I though Ireland might have relatively high density of place=locality due to the thorough mapping of townlands. But that barely even registers compared to Galicia which is apparently in a whole other league of granular naming. The two screenshots are at the same scale. I used centroids for the Irish townlands as the Galicia localities are nodes.

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@SK53@en.osm.town 2025-12-02 10:54

@alan@en.osm.town Brittany undoubtedly has *LOTS* of hamlets. Many rural communes have complex road signs as one enters showing how to get to all/most of the hamlets in the commune. (I'll try & fish out and example later today). My late uncle lived in the hamlet of Koatilouarn in the commune of Plounévézel, Finisterre. It has about 20 houses (only numbered in recent years), and despite being in walking distance of Carhaix-Plougher, only got mains water & sewerage in the '80s. E&OE

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