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 at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:En:Key:natural, > there seem to be some gaps. > > - 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 > - how do you tag a spur? In Australia, many spurs are named, ("Champion > spur", "Son of a bitch spur"). natural=ridge perhaps? > - how do you name a generic geographic feature, like a cluster of rocks > ("Mushroom rocks") or a vague features like "the blowhole", "something > hollow". The tags are all very specific and seem to imply the ability to > render it somehow other than using words. (I have ended up using > place=locality for some of these but it doesn't seem right.) > > Steve > [1] See this area for instance: http://bit.ly/1gVmycD
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 we should have natural=spur. natural=ridge, if it's not already used, should be for ridges. Perhaps we could also have natural=feature for a general named 'thing' that is visible and well known. Could be any sort of rock, outcrop, fissure etc. A [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/35.7236/128.0624&layers=C _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
