On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/11/19 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com>: >> "An island is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water >> and isolated from other significant landmasses." > > That definition is correct - for single islands. "piece" should > probably be changed to "piece (or group of pieces)" to make it work > for archipelagos, and fit with the general intention of the key (to > determine what priority should be given to labels)
It's not exactly unheard of to extend the class "island" this way; for instance search http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/ for name "islands" and feature class island. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
