[OSM-talk] scuba dive sites
Cartinus
cartinus at xs4all.nl
Sat May 22 16:16:59 BST 2010
On Saturday 22 May 2010 15:40:25 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:57, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 May 2010 11:27:08 Nic Roets wrote:
> >> > I've seen some dive sites tagged as place=locality
> >>
> >> AFAIK, place=locality indicates a place where people stay...
> >
> > No, locality was introduced for named geographic places where nobody
> > lives.
>
> Maybe, but in practice place=locality gets tacked on to a lot of
> random stuff you'd like to have rendered *now*.
So, you have noticed there are people tagging something as something else to
get it rendered (commonly known as "tagging for the renderer"). That doesn't
make it right or turn it into it's opposite meaning.
--
m.v.g.,
Cartinus
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