<div dir="ltr"><div>" I would think all of these should come under natural=xxxxx, & should be mapped as they are named: =headland, =cape, =peninsula, =promontory etc etc "</div><div><br></div><div>+1 That's been my general practice as well. The designations of cape, point, peninsula, headland, etc., are all arbitrary and come from historical usage.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 4:14 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">>
Is there an upper cut-off where things stop being a peninsula?<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Hmmm ... not really.</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>No indeed! When I did some looking into it, Europe can actually be considered to be a peninsula off Asia!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>is there a difference to a “cape”? What about a promontory? Shall we distinguish these, and if yes how and according to which criteria?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same thing then applies to headland & isthmus? The natural=cape wiki makes reference to See Also natural-isthmus (but the page doesn't exist!) & lists natural=headland (also doesn't exist) as a Possible Tagging Mistake. Why?</div><div><br></div><div>When I've looked at a few headlands I know, a couple of them are listed as place=locality, name=Indian Head, which, to me, doesn't really ring true?</div><div><br></div><div>I would think all of these should come under natural=xxxxx, & should be mapped as they are named: =headland, =cape, =peninsula, =promontory etc etc </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div>
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