| venue | points of interest, businesses, things with walls |
| address | places with a street address |
| neighbourhood | social communities, neighbourhoods |
| borough | a local administrative boundary, currently only used for New York City |
| localadmin | local administrative boundaries |
| locality | towns, hamlets, cities |
| county | official governmental area; usually bigger than a locality, almost always smaller than a region |
| macrocounty | a related group of counties. Mostly in Europe. |
| region | states and provinces |
| macroregion | a related group of regions. Mostly in Europe |
| country | places that issue passports, nations, nation-states |
| coarse | alias for simultaneously using all administrative layers (everything except venue and address) |
| postalcode | postal code used by mail services |
