[Tagging] Micronations

[Warin]

On 09/02/19 16:18, Mark Wagner wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:54:16 +1000
> Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does OSM recognise, & allow the mapping of, micronations as defined
>> areas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
>>
>> Was looking for something completely different :-) & just found this
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/653287455#map=15/38.0034/-87.6183
>> showing the "nation" of Pitchfork Union
>> https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Pitchfork_Union, complete with it's
>> Government Headquarters, Town Hall, military training areas, network
>> of roads, toll booths on the public roads giving access to the area,
>> 6m tall city wall & so on, none of which is visible in any overhead
>> or street level imagery I can find.
>>
>> Everything has been created by one user over the last couple of
>> months.
>>
>> Before contacting them to confirm that any of this stuff actually
>> exists, I thought I'd check to see if what they've done is allowed,
>> or if it counts as vandalism?
>>
>> Is there another way of handling this?
> My usual approach to micronations and fictional countries is to delete
> them, warn the user about mapping things that don't exist (yes, it's a
> form of vandalism), and point them at https://opengeofiction.net/
>

In this case they have been mapped as a 'residential area' with that name ...
The basic question is ... is that area residential?
  If so it could be named that locally.
Certainly contact them to check the residential status. I'd leave the name out of it. Just the truth about the areas use.