>> But if a locality represents only a historic location that has no >> physical presence today, it is debatable if this is a “real and >> current” feature that is appropriate for OSM rather than a historical >> map.
> If the name is still in present use then it belongs in OSM, even if > there is no physical presence on the ground people still use the name to > define the place. We might get some ideas about how to handle these issues about what goes on the map from organizations that have already dealt with them ( some like the British Ordnance Survey, over hundreds of years ). They publish their naming policies ( Toponymic Nomenclature ), and almost every country ( and the U.N. ) has one, The U.N. links to these from https://unstats.un.org/Unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/nna.html and the Canadian one, for example is at https://unstats.un.org/Unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/NNA/GNBC_english_accessible.pdf - refer to 'Principle 2', for example: "NAMES IN GENERAL PUBLIC USE" - First priority shall be given to names with long-standing local usage by the general public. Unless there are good reasons to the contrary, this principle should prevail. Most U.S. states also have a board: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20615877?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Unlike most agency documents, these can be a pretty fun read, imaging the arguments that created the item in the first place: " ... Examples are Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake in Manitoba and Île Kuchistiniwamiskahikan in Quebec."! Remote mapping, it is really hard to tell if a name is in use locally, and frequently I've encountered names like 'Jackson's Barn' that the original landmark rotted away fifty years ago. > but when the thing is gone, (a rail line stop that is no longer there), or is a collection of larger items that get named like a city or a village - yet have zero residents - seems like a good use for locality to me. +1 > Thus mesas and buttes could be mapped as nodes or areas, but plateaus could only be mapped as nodes. Thoughts? I scanned the NGA name server, and plateaus seem to be large areas, and mapped as points. Michael Patrick
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