I'm sorry for assuming these features were imported. That's a lot of work! Thanks for getting those administrative boundaries into the database.
A place=locality is defined as "an unpopulated location for which there is no extant feature to which the tag could be associated;" the original proposal said it was for a "named place that has no population." It seems like the majority townlands as in Ireland are populated, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland - and they are administrative divisions, so it's not necessary for them to be tagged with "place=*" in addition to the administrative boundary tags. On 4/16/19, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > On 15/04/2019 03:55, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/locality#values >> >> This tag is already used 65,000 times, but actually on boundaries; it >> was used for an import in Ireland with the values locality=townland >> and locality=subtownland. (These seem to be incorrect usages, because >> townlands seem to be populated places) > > The townlands (& subtownlands) in Ireland were not imported. The were > hand mapped. Yes, it's possible for a small number of mappers to map > ~65,000 things (over several years). > > I gave a talk about the project at SotM 2016: > https://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/mapping-irelands-61000-administrative-boundaries/ > > I believe the `locality=townland` was added for something for nominatim > or geocoding, but it depends on what JOSM preset one was using at the > same time 😛. > > Given that 99.5%+ of the usage of the `locality` key was intentionally > added by Irish mappers (and not a bad import), how can you say it's > wrong? 😛 > > > -- > Rory > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
