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

[Warin]

On 26/7/22 07:16, Tom Brennan wrote:
> 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


I have done a few of these along the Gross Valley. In many cases there 
is a peak and I have taken the view that the 'head' is the top of the peak.

> 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


natural=point only has some ~400 uses world wide, no wiki page so .. low 
uses = no rendering. Choosing one of the additional tags will get 
rendering .. but it should be appropriate to the feature not just 
'tagging for the render'

>
> 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.
>

Yep.


I have a similar difficulty with club=surf_life_saving, 
emergency=lifesaver, lifesaver=base ... as that does not render. If put 
on the building then the name of the club renders.. Having gone along 
the coast of NSW and put them to nodes and entered a few more off the 
DCS Base Map .. I am now going along and setting the details on the 
associated building... sigh.