[Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-10 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, My cycletouring map, http://cycletour.org, has been slowly morphing into a general topographic map[1]. One thing that's missing, though, is names for topographic features like mountain ranges, spurs, and general areas. Looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:En:Key:natural

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-10 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:26:55 Steve Bennett wrote: > Hi all, > My cycletouring map, http://cycletour.org, has been slowly morphing into > a general topographic map[1]. One thing that's missing, though, is names > for topographic features like mountain ranges, spurs, and general areas. > > Looking

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-10 Thread Dan S
2013/12/10 Andrew Errington : > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:26:55 Steve Bennett wrote: >> Hi all, >> My cycletouring map, http://cycletour.org, has been slowly morphing into >> a general topographic map[1]. One thing that's missing, though, is names >> for topographic features like mountain ranges, sp

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-10 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/12/10 Steve Bennett > - how do you tag a mountain range? That is, not a single ridge or > mountain, but a line of mountains, potentially hundreds or even thousands > of kilometres long > the question should be: how to map a mountain range, as it seems we can't represent these kind of featu

Re: [Tagging] Topographic place names

2013-12-10 Thread Tod Fitch
On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Yes please! I just added some hiking trails and had a named spur[1] that I > wanted to record. I used place=locality, but it seems wrong for the same > reasons you give. I'd suggest that since we have natural=peak, and > natural=saddle