On Monday 08 October 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > these are not actually groups of lakes, they are names for geographic > regions that also refer to lakes in their names (but cover more than > just the water areas). They are like the black forest, which is not a > forest, it is a geographic area where a lot of terrain is covered by > forests and where the name refers to trees, but which also comprises > other kinds of landuses and landcover.
Well - you could also say 'The Canary Islands' is the name of a geographic region and not an archipelago. The point here is verifiability of the geometry, not semantic nuances. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
