> Not all land forms are 'natural' by the common meaning of the word.
Ok, but all mountain ranges are certainly natural, by any sense of the word.
If you would like to change natural=peak, =saddle, =ridge, =cliff etc to a
new “landform” key, that should be a separate proposal which includes all
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On 09/02/19 11:22, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
Thanks for working on this. I had been meaning to reopen the proposal.
No need to introduce a new key. natural=mountain_range is fine, and
has been in use.
For me the key 'natural' is not good. It has a common meaning that goes
against the OSM defin
Mountain ranges of continental length are usually made up of shorter, named
ranges. I’d start by tagging the shorter ones.
For extremely long ranges we would neeed to use relations, as is done for
the 5000km long “Interstate” motorways in the USA and long rivers in all
countries.
Unfortunately,
The thing that would worry me about tagging it as a way is the length.
As you know, the Great Dividing Range is 3500k long, which would well &
truly stretch things!
Thanks
Graeme
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Thanks for working on this. I had been meaning to reopen the proposal.
No need to introduce a new key. natural=mountain_range is fine, and has
been in use.
> To map:
> - as a node - centred on the area
> - a simple open way along hte
spine of the range
Yes, both of these are good. If a way is us
Hi,
There appear to be 2 competing tags for use with mountain ranges.
Neither have any wiki documentation!
A) place=region, region=mountain_range
Mostly relations with outer ways only.
B) natural=mountain_range
Again as relations - with outer ways and at least some with nodes
representi
