On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 22:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
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> On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Martin Koppenhoefer
> wrote:
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>> is there a difference to a “cape”? What about a promontory? Shall we
>> distinguish these, and if yes how and according to which criteria?
>
> Same thing then applies to
" I would think all of these should come under natural=x, & should be
mapped as they are named: =headland, =cape, =peninsula, =promontory etc etc
"
+1 That's been my general practice as well. The designations of cape,
point, peninsula, headland, etc., are all arbitrary and come from
historical
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Martin Koppenhoefer
wrote:
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> > Is there an upper cut-off where things stop being a peninsula?
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> Hmmm ... not really.
>
> No indeed! When I did some looking into it, Europe can actually be
considered to be a peninsula off Asia!
> is there a difference to a “cape
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> On 27. Dec 2018, at 07:45, Michael Patrick wrote:
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> > Is there an upper cut-off where things stop being a peninsula?
>
> Hmmm ... not really.
is there a difference to a “cape”? What about a promontory? Shall we
distinguish these, and if yes how and according to which
> Is there an upper cut-off where things stop being a peninsula?
Hmmm ... not really. And it doesn't have to be the same body of water
either - the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan State are isolated by
the collective waters of the Great Lakes. The Iberian Peninsula in Europe,
the Korean Peni
I would also think natural= is a "nicer" approach :-)
Under the list of examples given on the proposal
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:place%3Dpeninsula
I was quite surprised to see India listed as a peninsula?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4869234021#map=4/17.85/7
I would not disagree with the reasoning fur the use of either tag but have
used natural=peninsula extensively in my Alaska mapping so I prefer going
forward with that one.
Dave
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 2:02 AM Markus wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 19:23, Martin Koppenhoefer
> wrote:
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> > Be
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 19:23, Martin Koppenhoefer
wrote:
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> Being this about a landform I would tend to prefer the natural key for it,
> although the use of place isn’t defacto limited to man made places
> (particularly locality) either.
A peninsula is a land form, on the other hand, we're als
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> On 26. Dec 2018, at 17:39, Markus wrote:
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> I'm proposing the tag place=peninsula for mapping named peninsulas.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:place%3Dpeninsula
While the tag natural=peninsula was rejected by voting in 2008, it is still
u
Hello,
I'm proposing the tag place=peninsula for mapping named peninsulas.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:place%3Dpeninsula
Regards
Markus
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