On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 12:40, Lionel Giard <lionel.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If we take the key "place=*", all the values are only related to toponym : > place=city/town/village/neighbourhood/locality/... They all are just the > name of a location of some type (either defined by population or other > aspect like an ocean/sea/...). > That looks right. > So the place=square tag seems to be the only one that both indicate a > location with a name (or not) and a feature. > Some people wish to use it to indicate the name, not the type of feature. I disagree with that usage. Names change and usage of physical features changes. An area that was once used as a town square (hard-surfaced place where the public congregate and may or may not be used for meetings) may retain the name "Foo Square" even though it is now a car park or a bus station. An area that is, and always was, a town square (public congregate there, as above) may be, and always have been, called "The Foo." An area that was never used as a town square, indeed is unable to be used as such, may be called "Foo Square" because a town planner liked the sound of that name. There is a town in the UK called Hornsea. It has "sea" in the name, therefore it should be mapped as an ocean. There is a housing estate near me called North Park, so it should be mapped as a park. To insist on those would be as illogical as insisting that the criterion for using place=square is the fact that it has "square" in the name. The use of place=square should depend on what the object is used for, not what its name is. If somebody wanted to propose place=name_contains_square we might see this idea of insisting that place=square is for POIs with "square" in the name for what it is: a pointless exercise that adds nothing useful. If we extended the principle to other tags, we'd only use building=house for houses that have "House" in their names, such as "Mill House" or "Digby House" and a house without "house" in the name would have to be building=yes. Except for the house named "Sea View" which would have to be tagged as a sea, not a house (no doubt some would argue it should be tagged as tourism= viewpoint). -- Paul
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