" I would think all of these should come under natural=xxxxx, & should be mapped as they are named: =headland, =cape, =peninsula, =promontory etc etc "
+1 That's been my general practice as well. The designations of cape, point, peninsula, headland, etc., are all arbitrary and come from historical usage. On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 4:14 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:05, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > Is there an upper cut-off where things stop being a peninsula? >> >> Hmmm ... not really. >> >> No indeed! When I did some looking into it, Europe can actually be > considered to be a peninsula off Asia! > > >> is there a difference to a “cape”? What about a promontory? Shall we >> distinguish these, and if yes how and according to which criteria? >> > > Same thing then applies to headland & isthmus? The natural=cape wiki makes > reference to See Also natural-isthmus (but the page doesn't exist!) & lists > natural=headland (also doesn't exist) as a Possible Tagging Mistake. Why? > > When I've looked at a few headlands I know, a couple of them are listed as > place=locality, name=Indian Head, which, to me, doesn't really ring true? > > I would think all of these should come under natural=xxxxx, & should be > mapped as they are named: =headland, =cape, =peninsula, =promontory etc etc > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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