On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:19:52 +0900 Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have reviewed all the features tagged as place=locality in 2 places > in the USA and 2 in Europe, and found that 3 out of 4, place=locality > is usually used for features that could be tagged with a more specific > tag. >... > Out of the remaining 47 nodes, several have names that suggest they > should have other tags: > - 8 are named “* Beach” (=> natural=beach) > - 2 “* Point” (natural=cape or natural=peninsula) > - 2 road junctions: “Four Corners” and “Old Saddle Road Junction” > (highway=junction) > - 1 may be a lake (“Green Lake”) (natural=water water=lake) I checked the local situation, and found the following: Spring Valley: is it a valley? No, it's a former rural railway stop. Hutton Settlement: is it a hamlet? No, it's an orphanage. Hazelwood: is it a forest? No, it's a former hamlet. Ohio Junction: Is it a highway junction? No, it's where the century-abandoned Ohio Match railway line met what is now the Union Pacific railway line. My point is that you can't tell what sort of thing something is from its name (or worse, from a translation of its name). -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
