[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Geographical Places

Polderrunner opn-osm at ngc7000.org
Tue Nov 11 22:24:48 GMT 2008


There is a need for a better way of labeling geographical features such 
as seas, peninsulas, mountain ranges etc. The current options of either 
associating a name=* tag directly with the natural=* tag or using 
place=locality with a name tag do not address the problems of selecting 
proper zoom levels to render a name, neither provide any clues to the 
renderer which font size etc to use.

The proposal introduces new place=land and place=water values. Further, 
a new key "place_level" may be used to classify the size of the feature.

Please see the proposal page for the details

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Geographical_Places





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