[OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area
joost schouppe
joost.schouppe at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 09:06:31 UTC 2016
The explanation is in the first paragraph of the place=locality wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dlocality
2016-11-21 9:36 GMT+01:00 Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org>:
> 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:
> >
> >
> > sent from a phone
> >
> >> Il giorno 20 nov 2016, alle ore 19:03, Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Martin
>
>
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