Am Mo., 8. Okt. 2018 um 12:47 Uhr schrieb Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de >:
> 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. When refering to place names, we should not generally reject the interpretation of semantic nuances, although they are only indicators, not hard factors. E.g. the example "Lausitzer Seenland" you mention, is explicitly not about lakes, it is about the terrain with lakes. Similarly the other example, "Mecklenburger Seenplatte" is also about a region and not about a group of lakes. I agree that bikeshedding semantic nuances does not always help an awful lot, for instance the Canary Islands are explicitly referring to the islands, but I would expect the name to apply to the sea between them as well (or according to the interpretation / context they might be included or not at the same time). There are also cases where the same name refers to different entities (according to common interpretation), e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_region For things as huge, it is clear there remains some ambiguity and uncertainty, but this should not hinder us from tagging the easy, simple cases with appropriate tags. A very similar problem are parts of lakes by the way, e.g. look at this map of the lake of Constance, showing names for parts of the lake: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodensee#/media/File:Bodensee_satellit%2Btext.png (or maybe the "lake" in this case is a group of lakes as well). Cheers, Martin
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