[Tagging] Tagging and rendering places without a name

[Warin]

On 21/4/20 6:59 pm, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Di., 21. Apr. 2020 um 06:03 Uhr schrieb Warin 
> <61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>:
>
>     So by the definition I see no issue of having place without a name
>     tag, as long as it has a name :)
>     Errr If it has a name, tag it. If you don't know its name then how
>     do you know it is a place?
>
>
>
> for example settlements. You might assume that a human settlement has 
> a name. Humans are like this, they assign names to important (for 
> them) things to facilitate communication about them. On the other 
> hand, without on the ground knowledge, you will not be able to know 
> the name. It is completely logical that remote mappers will add 
> hamlets, villages (and in the past probably even towns) from aerial 
> imagery, without knowing their name.


A remote mapper may map landuse=residential.. and that will render. 
However a remote mapper may not be able to distinguish the difference 
between a hamlet and a village particularly where cultural difference 
exist.
I would encourage the remote mapper to map landuse and leave the place 
tag alone.

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