[OSM-talk] Naming islands

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Collinson" <mike at ayeltd.biz>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Naming islands


> Ah, yes I've come across that one, there are a claimed 7,107 of them
> here and that's just at high tide!
>
> I suggest a place=island as a new place value.  I'd be happy to put
> that up as a proposed feature if there is general sentiment that it
> is reasonable to expand out the "place" tag beyond places of human 
> habitation.
>
> Mike
> Manila
>
> At 05:04 AM 25/01/2007, Kristian Thy wrote:
>>What's the standard for naming islands? A name tag on the coastline way,
>>or a separate point with name and ... what else tag?
>
>

Some while ago I proposed the tag label=
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/label

The idea started as a way of being able to place a town / city etc name 
separately to the node which actually marked the town.  In general it seems 
nodes which mark towns are placed at the centre of a town (which makes 
sense), but this is not always the ideal place to render the name as it 
often writes over other important features.

I then thought the label = tag could also be used so that other features 
which did not have a specific naming tag could have a name rendered on a 
map, for instance forests, mountains, islands etc.  However there did not 
seem much enthusiasm for the proposal.

David