Hey Andrew, I just wanted to send a follow up message to you since I'm on a real computer now. I want to send this to the Korea mailing list so others can comment. Hope you don't mind.
In regards to renaming certain peaks to saddles here is my rational. I'm translating the Korean "suffixes" -재,-고개, -치, -령 to mean mountain pass. I have passed through many of them personally along the southern portion of the Baekdudaegan most all of them are at a crossroad or cross trail. They are at the low point of the main ridge, but many are at the highpoint of subsidiary ridges. So depending on what perspective you're looking from they can appear as peaks. Many of them do contain survey markers as well as elevation markers but that alone doesn't qualify them as peaks. I did edit some of the ones in the vicinity as well based on my one experiences along the trail. When you consider the historical significances of these places, and that the ancient foot trails of Korea went mostly through the mountains, these were low points along the trail were the traveler could get off the main trail and find comfort in civilization below. On the particular peak in question, please re-edit it but note it so I don't accidently change it again. I've got several hundred of my own edits to reexamine when I'm through with this journey so I'll be busy with that for a long time. I've been using Vespucci on my Android phone to do most of my edits the past 5 weeks and I want to recheck everything in JOSM. In regards to editing the map for my own purposes I can understand the points your making, and I've been carefully considering my actions. I don't want to be a rogue mapper and some of my actions have been contrary to the conventions already in place. But you know as well as I that these conventions were mainly copied from Japan and China and haven't really been written in stone yet. I'm willing and wanting to help refine these conventions so that they're useful to all OSM users both Korean and non-Korean alike. Now why does Korea need OSM? That is easy for me to answer from my own experiences in Korea. True if you're in the city both Daum and Naver defeat OSM in the same way that Google defeats OSM in the western world, particularly in America. Where OSM excels is in the small villages and mountain trails. Most of the trails I have been hiking have already been mapped on OSM, and they do not appear on Naver or Daum. Reason number two why Korea needs OSM is a free and open source of information. This is lacking in Korea since the government does not make that data available to their citizens like my own does. You did a wonderful job creating this mailing list, even though it hasn't grown into what you thought it would be. There are many mappers both Korean and non-Korean who have not taken part in the discussions here, but the few that do are very knowledgeable and helpful. I believe Korea needs OSM and OSM needs this Korean mailing lists and community to come together. So I propose two things, 1) With what small community we have together rework the current naming conventions into something more usable and acceptable to everybody. 2) Find a way to bring together the Korean OSM community both Korean and foreign alike.
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