[Talk-gb-midanglia] Best practice for tagging minor hills and similar

[Philip Howarth]

Thanks for the wise words David.

I'll stick with the place=locality.

           Philip


2008/12/6 David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>

> On 06/12/2008 15:06, Philip Howarth wrote:
> > To identify a mountain is easy - just tag as:  natural=peak, name=Kala
> > Patar.
> >
> > This doesn't seem appropriate for minor hills and I have seen one small
> > discussion (focussing on the Cambridgeshire Gogs) on the suggestion to
> > use place=locality with natural=hill.
> > It is also clear that the intention of 'peak' is to mark the summit
> > whereas local useage with hill names is often to refer to the whole hill
> > as an area of land. Maybe I am suffering from living in the flatlands
> > too long - should I just get on and label them peek or... ?
> >
> > Closely connected (in terms of my attempts to map a rolling hilly area
> > in Northumberland) is how to tag areas that have local names with no
> > real associated feature.  I'm using place=locality for that at the
> > moment which seems to fit the definition "An unpopulated, named place".
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas, views, suggestions...
>
> place=locality is rendered by both the main maps (but not the cycle
> map), and seems appropriate for this. There's not a whole lot of point
> in defining an area for hills as the public domain contour data will
> serve this purpose very well.
>
> Mark Williamson got there before you and has already added Gog Magog
> Hills as a locality (in September).
>
> My feeling is you shouldn't use more than one "primary" tag on things,
> but I know others disagree (to the extent that we have
> place=X;building=town_hall on some nodes, which seems like awkward
> overloading to me).
>
> David
>
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