I don't know how others do this, but I've added a lot of Points and some Capes as place=locality.
I'm not exactly sure if this is how it should be done, but since I only use this tag for this feature I can easily mass convert them if anyone decides on a different scheme. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ian Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > I would appreicate some guidance on how to tag geographic features that have > names like XXX Cape, YYY Point ZZZ Headland, etc. That is, prominent bits of > land that stick out into the ocean. > > I have spent quite a bit on time looking at tagging guidelines but am more, > rather than less, confused. > > It seems that natural=peninsula got voted down and the page for > place=locality lists a lot of examples that don't fit that tag. I considered > natural=cliff but that won't fit some instances and natural=peak which > applies to "The top (summit) of a hill or mountain." is misleading, > especially when the cape is at the downhill end of a slope. > > I also searched the globe for examples that I knew of. All that did was > throw up oddities so the well known Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is > tagged tourism=attraction. > > Help please! > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
