On Wednesday 09 January 2019, Markus wrote: > > > > * seen from water: landmark at the coast to circumnavigate > > * seen from land: coastal extreme point on land in a certain > > direction > > Couldn't 'a point to circumnavigate' lead to confusion because > peninsulas needs to be circumnavigated too?
I don't know - that depends on how you want to define natural=peninsula. In classic navigation you use landmarks at the coast to plot and verify your course. That is what is meant with the above. > Isn't this clear by definition? The current definition of > natural=peninsula is 'a piece of land nearly surrounded by water or > projecting into water from a larger land mass' while a coastal area > is longish. As you can see the concept of 'nearly' is pretty vague here. The description for bays uses the term 'mostly' and look what this has led to: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4681569 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/552099079 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8399350 So if you want natural=peninsula to mean something more specific than 'some named land area at the coast' (like bay tagging on polygon meanwhile just means 'some water area near the coast a mapper wanted to label') you better try to make the definition somewhat clearer. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging