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 phone > >> Il giorno 20 nov 2016, alle ore 19:03, Martin Koppenhoefer >> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> 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 instance. >> Indeed the tag is not to be used for populated places. > > > > sorry, of course I meant: it's not untypical that many toponyms represent > features that are not prominent on aerial imagery or even on the ground, like > "empty" fields and forests for instance. > > cheers, > Martin
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