[OSM-talk] mountain_pass=yes: combination with place=locality and rendering

[Niccolo Rigacci]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:21:13AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
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> You can argue that place=locality (aka "A Locality is a named place that  
> has no population.") isn't wrong for a pass. However, we're not tagging  
> locality together with other unpopulated places that have a name e.g.  
> natural=peak, so I don't think we should do it for passes.

For bikers - at least in Italy Alps and Appennini mountains - a 
mountain pass along a road is often used as a meeting point or as 
a trip destination. So the use of place=locality is not so 
misleading.

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Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy