Generally "place=locality" is appropriate for named places that are unpopulated. (See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place}
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, at 2:56 AM, Little Maps wrote: > Hi again everyone, hope you’re all enjoying Easter. A simple newbie > question... > > How do you label localities that have no precise boundaries? I’m > working on part of the Murray River and adding locality names from Vic > Gov data. Many can be placed on mapped features (e.g. campsites and > beaches) but lots cannot. > > The most common examples are ‘bends’ and ‘points’, such as Horseshoe > Bend, Hideaway Bend, Cray Point, Killers Point, etc. These areas have > no mapped boundaries. Should these be added by placing a node / point > in the appropriate place and labelled it as follows, or is there a > better way? > > Place:locality > Name: Killers Point > Source geometry: > Source name: xxx > > Thanks again, and thanks too to Warin for answering my earlier question. > > Best wishes Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au