[OSM-talk] Islands

Mike Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Wed May 16 21:07:24 BST 2007


At 07:53 PM 16/05/2007, David Groom wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com>
>To: "OSM" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:04 PM
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Islands
>
>
>> We don't seem to have a tag on the Map_features page for naming islands, 
>> but
>> I can see that this convention has already been used fairly widely:
>>
>>  place=island
>>  name=Bardsey
>>  is_in=Gwynedd,Wales,UK
>>
>> So I'll just add it to Map_features, unless anyone strongly objects, since
>> it is de-facto accepted.
>>
>
>place=island has been in proposed features for some time, but with no date 
>for voting
>
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Islands
>
>David

... and has 7 votes for and zero against over 5 months.  I suggest indeed it should be moved into Map Features.

Mike






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