There is a need for a better way of labeling geographical features such as seas, peninsulas, mountain ranges etc. The current options of either associating a name=* tag directly with the natural=* tag or using place=locality with a name tag do not address the problems of selecting proper zoom levels to render a name, neither provide any clues to the renderer which font size etc to use.
The proposal introduces new place=land and place=water values. Further, a new key "place_level" may be used to classify the size of the feature. Please see the proposal page for the details http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Geographical_Places _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
