[OSM-talk] Naming Islands

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:12:29PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I proposed that on the wiki a week ago or so, having stumbled across  
> the problem with some small coastal islands in Wester Ross. It seemed  
> logical to use place=island for that, especially as for some  
> inhabited islands the island name is used instead of a village or  
> hamlet name.
> 
> Someone pointed out on the wiki that the label tag would solve the  
> problem just as well. And naming the contour doesn't sound too bad  
> either. I really don't know what is best, I just used place=village  
> because it is very similar to mechanisms already used.

I don't like the "label" idea. We should tag features with some semantic
meaning, not how they should be labelled. That is a job for the
renderer. A "label" tag is much too generic. See my comment on the
discussion page.

Jochen
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