On Wednesday 17 April 2019, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > I believe many people are using natural=peak to add the name of > plateaus / mesas / tablelands.
Yes, that is definitely the case for buttes and small mesas - but then again these are features that can be verifiably mapped based on local knowledge. However using a generic natural=plateau tag which is then inevitably used by some mappers to cargo cult polygons around just about any area of land elevated in some way relative to its surrounding is not a good idea. I see nothing wrong with creating natural=butte and natural=mesa with appropriately tight definitions: Both being surrounded on all sides by cliffs or very steep slopes, buttes with a height larger than width and mesas with a flat top (i.e. height variation across the top being significantly smaller than the total height). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
