That's an interesting example. Was the wheel put there as a landmark or route marker, or just for fun?
If the tag "place=locality" didn't exist, how would you tag this? On 4/15/19, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > As an example of a locality that has never had a population > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/117041320 > > /The Wheel/ (a car wheel - no tyre) was originally mounted on a tree by > bushwalkers to mark the hub of the Blue Labyrinth's ridges. > > No one has ever lived there. Plenty of people go past, and it still a > navigational feature. > > Fairly certain other localities have their stories to tell too. > > > n 15/04/19 17:23, Warin wrote: >> From the original start of place=locality >> >> /All current place tags are for either populated areas, or for larger >> areas of County sized or bigger. The place=locality tag is useful for >> places that have a specific name, but do not necessarily have any >> geographic feature or population centre that could be used to attach a >> name tag to. / >> >> That to me suggest that places that locality can be a place that had >> population, or places that did not have a population. >> >> But, I agree, that places that had a population would be better tagged >> disused:/abandonded: place=hamlet/town/village/city >> >> I think that can go on the wiki for locality... under 'when not to >> use' with the others there. >> / >> / >> On 15/04/19 17:03, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> >>> >>> sent from a phone >>> >>> On 15. Apr 2019, at 03:55, Joseph Eisenberg >>> <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> The most important value would be one for a locality that is a former >>>> populated place but no longer has a population. >>> >>> >>> I’ve always understood the population part of the locality tag >>> definition as a way of saying the place name does not relate to a >>> settlement or dwelling (but it doesn’t necessarily mean nobody is >>> living around there, it means this name is not for an inhabited >>> place). A generic tag for a place name/ toponym, to be used where no >>> specific tag has yet been developed. >>> (e.g. we have specific tags for toponyms that refer to mountain >>> peaks, wetlands, lakes, islands, deserts, caves, settlements, etc. so >>> we don’t use locality for them) >>> >>> I’m not sure I’d support locality subtags, for lots of things a main >>> tag might be more fitting with the established tagging system, but it >>> depends on the actually proposed values. >>> >>> For ghost towns (settlements) I’ve found a lot tagged as >>> abandoned:place=hamlet/village/town >>> >>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/abandoned:place#values >>> >>> which seems inline with the rest of our tagging and is by far more >>> frequent than any “ghost” variations. >>> >>> Cheers, Martin >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
