2013/12/10 Andrew Errington <erringt...@gmail.com>: > 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.
All sounds good. Note that for rocks and outcrops we do have tags: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dbare_rock (I was using natural=rock before but it seems natural=bare_rock is preferred since less ambiguous. I tend to use this for standing rock areas as well as for flat ones...) Dan > [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
