Hi everyone. I'm in the alps, and I've been mapping some areas in the region. I have two questions regarding tagging where I couldn't find a decent consensus on the wiki.
There are many areas in the region that go by a specific name. I have two cases where a group of lakes (as a whole) is known by a name, but then each single lake has also his own lake. I found an existing example in France, "Les 7 Eaux": http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/45.2466/6.0866 which has been tagged with a multipoligon relation. Unfortunately, the relation has some problems: - not rendered anywhere? I would expect that when the scale is high enough, and there's no place to render the lake names, the name of the relation is shown. But it's not. On the contrary, unnamed lakes simply take the name of the relation. - sometimes I not only have lakes, but I might have other features inside that area, that are logically part of the same known spot. Is a relation still a good idea in that case? It seems to me that the closest tagging scheme might be a loose area with place=locality. Would that be a good idea? I did a test, here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/46.4696/10.7590 but again, no renderers seem to pick up this important information (the name - the boundary itself is not important!), which would be especially important for a topographic and landscape map. A related question is the name of the valleys. I saw several proposed tags in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Region http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Valley but not really an official tagging scheme. Valley names are very important features for a topographic map. Similarly, we have areas for entire mountain groups, which are fundamental for a topographic map in the alps. Again, the boundaries of such areas are not so important, but it's mostly used as an indication for the name placement. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
