> there are many cases in OSM where different things are all tagged the same ... > brook, creek, stream, rivulet -> stream
These are mapped with one tag because there is not an objective distinction between these names for waterways. There is waterway=stream vs waterway=river for wide natural waterways vs narrow (“too big to jump across” vs “jumpable”) > bay, cove -> bay Coves are small bays, but I do t think there is a clear way to distinguish them > peak, knob, hill, mound, mountain, pinnacle, tops -> peak Several of these may refer to a ridge or massif rather than to an OSM peak, which is a local high point. We do have natural=ridge for some of these, which is a linear feature rather than a point. Another example is cape vs peninsula. The tag natural=cape is used for headlands, points, capes, etc and is a node at the extreme point of land. Peninsula is used to describe an area of land that is mostly surrounded by water. Some capes, like Cape Cod and they Cape of Good Hope, are both a named peninsula and a cape with the same name, but can be mapped as 2 feature in OSM. This is also similar to a place=hamlet mapped as a point, which may be in a landuse=residential area, and might also be surrounded by an administrative boundary with the same name (though in this case it would not be normal to tag the landuse=residential with the same name)
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