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

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 08:16:35 UTC 2020


In addition to what others have mentioned here, you should also distinguish
if it's a "place" or if it's a natural feature and tag accordingly.

For example, Potts Point the "point" (natural=cape) as in the land that
sticks out into the water body is mapped like
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3956292591 and Potts Point the locality
(place=suburb) that the area is known as is mapped like
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1647971432

Regarding Bends and Reaches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(geography) we
don't have a widespread accepted way to map these, so it's okay to use
place=locality as a standin until we do (in fact points were originally
mapped this way until we agreed upon natural=cape).

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:57, Little Maps <mapslittle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again everyone, hope you’re all enjoying Easter. A simple newbie
> question...
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Place:locality
> Name: Killers Point
> Source geometry:
> Source name: xxx
>
> Thanks again, and thanks too to Warin for answering my earlier question.
>
> Best wishes Ian
>
>
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