Jarek 🚲
> You basically advocate putting suburb everywhere and leave no place to the more local neighbourhood tag which you totally ignore. 

No, that's not what I'm advocating. To quote myself: 

"Current tagging in North Van does seem a bit heavy on the suburbs. From my experience there, I would consider Lynn Valley a suburb in the OSM sense and maybe Capilano as well, but Handsworth is probably only a neighbourhood. ... Similarly Horseshoe Bay is probably an OSM suburb within West Van, but Eagle Harbour might not be. Ambleside is probably suburb, Hollyburn probably not. I see the tag for Handsworth is 9 years old so it can probably use updating. Locals could probably pitch in more."

I can't speak for Ottawa, but in Toronto, North York is tagged as a suburb since it is a major subdivision of a municipality with a fairly distinct identity, while Vaughan is tagged as a city because it is a city.

Looking around Montréal I'm seeing several uses of city (e.g. Longueuil, population 252k) and town (e.g. Candiac, pop. 21k - half of City of North Vancouver) and not that many suburb tags. Under which definition is North Vancouver a suburb but Candiac is not?

You suggested that Surrey is a suburb. Surrey is more populous than Laval, and in terms of relative population of its metro area, much more populous. Would you suggest that Laval also be retagged as a suburb?
