<div dir="auto">Wouldn't it be more consistent to keep it in the same key, and call it place=lake_group? Or even place=lakes?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would this be used for something like the Great Lakes in USA/Canada or is that too large of a feature?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 12:05 PM stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1. Joseph's suggestion is a fine example of "OSM can and does coin new tags on occasion." Adding a nice boost, there is a suggestion that "similar" tagging be used as an example of how to define / use / document the new tag. Great!<br>
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On Dec 15, 2020, at 6:56 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Re: “ a couple of islets with a collective name”<br>
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> We have a tag for that: place=archipelago for a group of islands. <br>
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> There isn’t a common tag for a group of lakes with one name, probably because this is only common in some countries, especially near the Arctic region. We’ve talked about this issue before but did not find an existing tag.<br>
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> I would suggest a tag like natural=lake_group to be added to a multipolygon which includes each of the lakes, similar to how archipelagos are mapped.<br>
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