I've noticed that there's a GNIS import going on in the USA recently, and one of the types of POIs being imported are islands, which are tagged place=island. Of course, the GNIS database contains some very tiny islands, but Mapnik renders place=island up to z10. For example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.69&lon=-75.353&zoom=10&layers=B000FTFT
Allentown is a city with a population of 100,000. Eves Island appears to be about 20 feet long, yet the label for it is nearly the size of Allentown. :) Someone on IRC suggested that place=islet might be a more correct tagging for these, and the map features page for place=island seems to agree: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Disland "I am mainly thinking of small coastal or river islands which may have a small settlement or a farm"--this indicates that tiny little patches of land weren't the original target of this tag. Thoughts? -Ted
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