[talk-au] How to label ill-defined places?

[Little Maps]

Thanks very much Ewen and Michael, I’ll use those tags where they, and nothing much else, seems to fit best. Ewen, I’ve been admiring your amazing land use mapping around Rutherglen and Mildura! Best wishes Ian

> On 13 Apr 2020, at 12:56 pm, Little Maps <mapslittle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi again everyone, hope you’re all enjoying Easter. A simple newbie question...
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> How do you label localities that have no precise boundaries? I’m working on part of the Murray River and adding locality names from Vic Gov data. Many can be placed on mapped features (e.g. campsites and beaches) but lots cannot.
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> The most common examples are ‘bends’ and ‘points’, such as Horseshoe Bend, Hideaway Bend, Cray Point, Killers Point, etc. These areas have no mapped boundaries. Should these be added by placing a node / point in the appropriate place and labelled it as follows, or is there a better way?
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> Place:locality
> Name: Killers Point
> Source geometry:
> Source name: xxx
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> Thanks again, and thanks too to Warin for answering my earlier question.
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> Best wishes Ian
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