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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'd use<br>
place=locality <br>
name=* <br>
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Fits, renders and searchable. Put it on a node. <br>
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On 27/09/18 19:58, Dave Swarthout wrote:<br>
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<p>I'm working on adding islands and other features in the
Tanana River in Alaska. There are many named sloughs (side
channels), islands and in some areas curves or bends that
have a name. In my example there is a large bend in the
river that has its own name, Harper Bend. I'm looking for a
way to tag that section so that the name is findable. It
would be nice but not imperative if that name would display
on the OSM slippy map and incidentally, on my GPSr.<br>
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<p>If I break the river at both ends of the curve, I could add
the name to the section between the breaks but that doesn't
seem right because the river's name isn't changing. Another
much more complicated solution would be to break the
riverbank into sections and add a name to the one that
encompasses the bend.</p>
<p>I don't know why I didn't ask here first but I raised this
question on the OSM Help forum and one answer was to use a
node. But if one goes that way, I reckon a new tag would be
needed. So let's begin our discussion with that. Given that
it's important to me to describe our mapped objects as
completely as possible, I want a method to tag such a bend.<br>
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<p>Suggestions? Opinions?</p>
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<div>Dave<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dave Swarthout<br>
Homer, Alaska<br>
Chiang Mai, Thailand<br>
Travel Blog at <a href="http://dswarthout.blogspot.com"
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