On 24 October 2010 09:11, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree because, > * The wiki lists natural=bay as appliciable to ways > * a Bay as defined by the wiki "is an area of water", not a point in > the middle of a body of water. > But tagging as natural=bay is valid for both points and polygons. My observation (earlier) is that there are many more named bays in the database as named points than as polygons. On the issue of a bay being a body of water and not a point, at least one official govenemnt source has no problem in treating a bay as a point e.g. < http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazm01?placename=botany+bay&placetype=0&state=0> mapped as way allows renderers to for instance render names for > large bays at low zooms, and not render names for small bays untill > very high zooms. > Tagging a polygon as natural=water and name=Givenname produces the same result. * mapped as a way allows for someone to use the database to ask "Am I > in ... Bay?" > Again, tagging a polygon as natural=water and name=Givenname produces the same result.
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