[Tagging] The showstoppers for mapping Scandinavian nature.

[Andrew Harvey]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 21:26, Anders Torger <anders at torger.se> wrote:

> In Scandinavian rural nature we have about 5 - 10 of these names with
> "undefined" borders per 10x10 km square, so it's more than a few. Named
> sections of forests, named sections of water, named sections of a
> mountain or hill, named sections of broad ridges, named peninsulas,
> named valleys (often extremely wide), named plateaus, long streams which
> in some undefined place change name, huge wetlands which in some
> undefined place change name, etc.
>
> According to the purist interpretation of verifiability all these should
> be named as points of undefined size, or maybe in some cases as a line.
> (Actually you could make a polygon of these natural areas verifiable in
> the purist way, just by making it small enough so that all points of the
> polygon is verifiably inside the area, but it's not up for discussion)
>

I don't see the issue with just mapping these areas as polygons, we have
the 3,500km long Great Dividing Range mapped as fuzzy=50000
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/211234843. Like anything in OSM, it
starts with a rough outline and over time can be better mapped in more
detail. Would be silly to try and expect this to be mapped as a point and
not a polygon.
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