> I'm certain the gold rushes Alaska experienced > during the past 150 years contributed to many of these abandoned "Populated > Places".
I've checked, and I don't see any tag like "historic=campsite" or similar. This could account for many of the named places I know in my home area in Northern California as well. I also wonder how the locations of nomadic campsites are tagged in places like the Sahara or Mongolia. Nomadic lifestyles are becoming very rare, but there are still a few places. There are still Irish travelers and Roma people who live in temporary settlements. I wonder how these are tagged. They are not tourism=caravan_site but place=hamlet suggests a settlement, rather than a temporary camp? > I tag a typical abandoned place=locality with only the name, the source, > the abandoned=yes tag and occasionally with a description if I think it's > interesting enough. I like the suggestion from this thread to add abandoned:place=hamlet/village for the former mining towns. This key has already been used over 6000 times. It would also be possible to use disused:place=* for settlements that are uninhabited but still have buildings, eg a ghost town. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/abandoned%3Aplace > Sometimes people tag groups of islands with the locality tag as opposed to > creating a relation of some sort. There is a request to render place=archipelago now (Issue #3394); I will look into it. It's only used 740 times, so it would help if more people start using the tag. It would certainly be useful here in Indonesia. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/place=archipelago -Joseph (BTW, I would recommend tagging archipelagos as simple nodes or as multipolygon relations that include all of the islands. The wiki pages suggests using a "type=cluster" relation, but this would be hard to use) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging