> 12 dec. 2020 kl. 16:18 skrev Anders Torger <and...@torger.se>:
> 
> Indeed, place=locality seems to be a dead end, it's been misused quite much 
> and there's talks about removing it from OSM-Carto, and you can't render good 
> maps from it, so it's technically a poor concept as well. 


Around where I live (Stockholm), most place=locality seem to refer to old 
”torp” [1] and other (at least historically) inhabited places. At least the 
classic ”Terrängkartan” (the ”official” paper maps of Sweden, sadly no longer 
in production) rendered those differently from pure terrain names (upright vs. 
italic font).

Here in the lake Mälaren valley almost every square meter has been farmed at 
some point, so most names refer to settled places (or archaeological traces of 
them). Up north where I grew up, and where Anders seems to be mapping, you get 
a lot more names that refer to bogs, slopes, mountains and that sort of thing.

It would be nice to have that distinction in OSM, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torp_(architecture)


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