We recently discussed place=locality, and I now believe this tag should be avoided, and perhaps deprecated.
To summarize, most of these features were added in North America from GNIS imports; almost 20% are in Alaska alone (>200,000!), and they were used for all sorts of features that are not populated places: abandoned hamlets, former mining camps, construction sites, railroad and highway junctions, former locations of Native Alaskan villages, etc. Martin and Warin suggested to use abandoned:place=* for those which were former place=hamlet, =village, isolated_dwelling, etc. Several people mentioned ways they have used this tag for a "place without population that has a name:" for example, to tag crossroads, hills, a wood, a field, a pair islands, a group of a few lakes, an informal landmark / route mark, an abandoned airstrip, a proposed airstrip, etc. However, most of these suggested uses have other tags that could be more specific crossroads: highway=junction railway junction: railway=junction hill: natural=peak or natural=ridge or natural=hill wood: natural=wood field: landuse=farmland or =meadow islands: place=archipelago airstrip: proposed:aerodrome=airstrip + abandoned=yes; abandoned:aerodome=airstrip Two of the examples need new tags created: 3 lakes with a name: needs a new tag, perhaps natural=lake_group as a multipolygon relation? An informal landmark (eg an old car wheel up on a tree) - perhaps there is something for this already. I believe that place=locality was a reasonable idea when it was proposed in 2007, and few tags had been developed. But now, over 11 years later, we have more specific tags for almost everything that is currently tagged this way. My suggestion: check out all the features tagged with place=locality in your area. If they have a more specific tag or a more precise tag can be added, please remove the place=locality tag. (If this results in the name no longer rendering in the Openstreetmap-carto, please check the list of issues and add a comment if you think that the feature should have a name label rendered on a general map: http://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues ) Joseph _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
