On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cartinus <carti...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Saturday 22 May 2010 15:40:25 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:57, Cartinus <carti...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> > On Saturday 22 May 2010 11:27:08 Nic Roets wrote: >> >> > I've seen some dive sites tagged as place=locality >> >> >> >> AFAIK, place=locality indicates a place where people stay... >> > >> > No, locality was introduced for named geographic places where nobody >> > lives.
OK. Thanks. The wiki describes it nicely. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place=locality >> >> Maybe, but in practice place=locality gets tacked on to a lot of >> random stuff you'd like to have rendered *now*. > > So, you have noticed there are people tagging something as something else to > get it rendered (commonly known as "tagging for the renderer"). That doesn't > make it right or turn it into it's opposite meaning. I'm just afraid that a year from now, someone will come along and invent 6 new tags (head, bay, peak, gulf etc) and immediately retag those as he sees fit. Because that is exactly what happened to sport=diving. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
