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 obviously populated places. I think the bigger problem here is that place=locality is rendered on too high zoom levels. Today they are handled like place=hamlet and rendered at zoom 15. Maybe lower it to zoom=16 and give them a smaller font than hamlet or render them in italics? /Andreas On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Sebastian Arcus <s.ar...@open-t.co.uk> wrote: > I'm looking at the following section of OSM: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/42.9959/-8.3908 > > I see lots and lots of locality names, on what the satellite imagery > confirms to be otherwise just empty fields and forests. I'm pretty sure > I've seen this elsewhere on OSM, in another part of the world. Does anybody > know why are all these place names there - in the middle of nowhere? > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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