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

[Anders Torger]

We have these in the north as well, often old soldier settlements. Many 
are are still inhabited today, but the original building most often long 
gone. We also have those that are abandoned with little sign of that 
there ever being a building there.

Strangely enough, sometimes the names for the abandoned places have more 
relevance today than those still inhabited. The inhabited places have 
modern addresses which are generally used instead, while the abandoned 
places can be used by hunters or other outdoor people for navigating in 
the landscape. But it varies place to place.

I have use place=locality for some of these as I've seen others use it, 
but I haven't had time to give it much thought. It seems like we're 
trying to move away from place=locality and try to be more specific, 
which probably is a good idea.

Currently I'm focusing mostly on nature.

/Anders

On 2020-12-13 11:10, Ture Pålsson via Tagging wrote:

>> 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)
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Tagging mailing list
> Tagging at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20201213/23a6398b/attachment.htm>