2011/11/7 Dmitri Lebedev <siberia.acca...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > this is the page with the proposal: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ridge > > Just look at this picture: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/North_Ridge_of_Mount_Rohr.jpg/400px-North_Ridge_of_Mount_Rohr.jpg > > There are peaks that can be tagged properly (although it's technically > possible to deduct them with some accuracy from elevation maps), but > between them there are ridges, the top edges of the mountains.
I like this proposal, because it is truly important to have these connections in a map (you will usually see them in the elevation isolines, but they might have a name) I am not sure for the wording though. Isn't this an edge? Maybe I am confused, because wikipedia "told" me that a ridge would be a natural feature (your proposal doesn't give any definition what a ridge is) occuring at a _chain of mountains_ (but in the osm wiki you also speak about hills) while for shorter places I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%AAte (french words do IMHO not really make sense) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_(topography), "crest" and "edge" (could also be that interlanguage links are not precise, I am mostly referring to the difference between de:"Gebirgskamm" and de:"Grat"). Is this all the same? Shall we distinct between them? I think due to the various words in use for features of this kind a definition should be given and alternatives proposed for features that are close but excluded by this definition. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
