[Tagging] How to put a name tag on an area with more than one type?

[Ture Pålsson]

> 12 dec. 2020 kl. 16:18 skrev Anders Torger <anders at torger.se>:
> 
> Indeed, place=locality seems to be a dead end, it's been misused quite much and there's talks about removing it from OSM-Carto, and you can't render good maps from it, so it's technically a poor concept as well. 


Around where I live (Stockholm), most place=locality seem to refer to old ”torp” [1] and other (at least historically) inhabited places. At least the classic ”Terrängkartan” (the ”official” paper maps of Sweden, sadly no longer in production) rendered those differently from pure terrain names (upright vs. italic font).

Here in the lake Mälaren valley almost every square meter has been farmed at some point, so most names refer to settled places (or archaeological traces of them). Up north where I grew up, and where Anders seems to be mapping, you get a lot more names that refer to bogs, slopes, mountains and that sort of thing.

It would be nice to have that distinction in OSM, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torp_(architecture)


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