[OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

Rory McCann rory at technomancy.org
Mon Nov 21 08:36:14 UTC 2016


Additionally, there might be nothing there *now*, but there might have
been things there in the past, and the name as stuck around, as a
locality. Just because a place is unpopulated doesn't mean the place
doesn't have a name!

On 20/11/16 20:05, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> Il giorno 20 nov 2016, alle ore 19:03, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>> it's not untypical that many toponyms don't represent features that are not prominent on aerial imagery or even on the ground, like "empty" fields and forests for instance.
>> Indeed the tag is not to be used for populated places.
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> sorry, of course I meant: it's not untypical that many toponyms represent features that are not prominent on aerial imagery or even on the ground, like "empty" fields and forests for instance.
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> cheers,
> Martin 


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