I guess this partly comes down to the questions of how you define a way, and how you define a pass. If a particular pass becomes little-used, because a tunnel or a lower pass provides an easier way to get past the mountains, does that make it stop being a pass? What if the pass is a boundary between two nations, and the border crossing is closed because one or both nations don't maintain a customs station there? Does that make the pass stop being a pass, in the geographic, rather than political, sense?
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Mountain passes >From :mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com Date :Sun Feb 13 13:36:08 America/Chicago 2011 2011/2/13 Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com>: > According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mountain_pass "passes > only make sense on ways". But it's possible to have a pass with no way > crossing it (not even an informal footpath) or with multiple ways crossing > (a dual carriageway, or parallel highway and railway). How should these > cases be handled? no, it is IMHO not possible that a pass has no way that crosses it, otherwise it wouldn't be a pass. If there is more then 1 one way I guess you would have to tag all of them. Maybe natural=pass (or mountain_pass) on a node might be more logical for the feature if you bear in mind that the wiki suggests to tag ele with it. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
