[talk-au] Head or point on non-coastal land

Tom Brennan website at ozultimate.com
Mon Jul 25 21:16:35 UTC 2022


What tag do you recommend using for heads or points that are away from 
the coast?

There seem to be a variety of methods people have used, none of them 
particularly satisfactory:
1. Map them as a peak eg Catt Head: natural=peak
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4420272847
2. Map them as a locality eg Inspiration Point: place=locality
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8107812662
3. Map them as a lookout eg Sublime Point: tourism=viewpoint
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/410055825
4. Map them as a point and also a locality, presumably because point is 
not rendered by most renderers(?) eg Point Pilcher: natural=point, 
place=locality
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6164541885

Here are a couple of unmapped examples:
https://maps.ozultimate.com/?id=1658781656252

If it's on the coast, "cape" seems to be the preferred tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dcape

However, there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for similar features on 
land.

cheers
Tom
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