Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

I have seen them too. I think they were imported once, considering the tags in this example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1243337771 and this changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/26850111 I have changed some of them in southern Spain to more appropriate tags, since they were in

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

On 21/11/16 12:49, Andy Townsend wrote: On 21/11/2016 11:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sebastian Arcus wrote: Well, looking at the map, it looks like each and every parcel of land and section of field has a locality tag associated with it. It's very common in the UK, too, for uninhabited

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

On 21/11/2016 11:42, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sebastian Arcus wrote: Well, looking at the map, it looks like each and every parcel of land and section of field has a locality tag associated with it. It's very common in the UK, too, for uninhabited sections of woodland and hillside to have

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

Sebastian Arcus wrote: > Well, looking at the map, it looks like each and every parcel of > land and section of field has a locality tag associated with it. It's very common in the UK, too, for uninhabited sections of woodland and hillside to have placenames. > it still seems a bit odd - and

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

> Le 2016 Du 21 à 11:30, Sebastian Arcus a écrit : > > > On 21/11/16 09:51, Andrew Errington wrote: >> It could be tagging for the renderer. A 'locality' tag causes a label >> to appear on the map. > > That has crossed my mind. Actually, that is how the issue came to my

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

On 21/11/16 09:51, Andrew Errington wrote: It could be tagging for the renderer. A 'locality' tag causes a label to appear on the map. That has crossed my mind. Actually, that is how the issue came to my attention - on my GPS navigation software, which uses OSM maps, it appears as if the

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

2016-11-21 10:39 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Arcus : > Even allowing for places which don't exist any more toponyms often are very old, and often refer to things that are not observable any more. Still the names / toponyms can be observed now, e.g. locals know them, they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

On 21/11/16 08:36, Rory McCann wrote: Additionally, there might be nothing there *now*, but there might have been things there in the past, and the name as stuck around, as a locality. Just because a place is unpopulated doesn't mean the place doesn't have a name! Well, looking at the map, it

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

The explanation is in the first paragraph of the place=locality wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dlocality 2016-11-21 9:36 GMT+01:00 Rory McCann : > Additionally, there might be nothing there *now*, but there might have > been things there in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

Additionally, there might be nothing there *now*, but there might have been things there in the past, and the name as stuck around, as a locality. Just because a place is unpopulated doesn't mean the place doesn't have a name! On 20/11/16 20:05, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

sent from a phone > Il giorno 20 nov 2016, alle ore 19:03, Martin Koppenhoefer > ha scritto: > > it's not untypical that many toponyms don't represent features that are not > prominent on aerial imagery or even on the ground, like "empty" fields and > forests for

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

sent from a phone > Il giorno 20 nov 2016, alle ore 18:41, Sebastian Arcus > ha scritto: > > I see lots and lots of locality names, on what the satellite imagery confirms > to be otherwise just empty fields and forests it's not untypical that many toponyms don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Lot's of locality names in an otherwise empty area

Have you tried contacting the mappers who created and last edited these nodes? It looks like they were imported from some official source in 2011 and tidied up in 2014. --colin On 2016-11-20 18:41, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > I'm looking at the following section of OSM: > >