<div dir="ltr"><div>Plateau, table, tablelands all used in Australia.</div><div><br></div>landform=plateau has 5 usagesĀ <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landform=plateau">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landform=plateau</a><br><div><br></div><div>natural=plateau seems fine to me. Could be called walls sometimes, but to me it's unclear if that's the term for the plateau or the cliffs that surround the plateau.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 14:56, Joseph Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com">joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm surprised that I can't find an established tag or wiki page for a<br>
plateau, mesa, or tableland; an area of raised land that is flat on<br>
top:<br>
<br>
See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau</a> and<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa</a> and<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(landform)" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(landform)</a><br>
<br>
Small plateaus or mesas may be called a "Butte" in the USA, or a<br>
tableland in some English-speaking regions. See<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte</a><br>
<br>
They are known as "Mesas" in Spanish-speaking areas and related<br>
languages. I believe "plateau" is from French?<br>
<br>
These features are common in arid areas of the southwestern United<br>
States and in many other places that have the appropriate geology:<br>
usually there is a hard layer of rock on top of softer layers. This<br>
often forms a flat area with steep slopes or even cliffs at the sides.<br>
They can also from from volcanic activity, or from glaciation.<br>
<br>
I searched taginfo for "tableland", "table_land", "table-land",<br>
"plateau" and "mesa".<br>
<br>
There are 94 natural=plateau and 3 natural=mesa.<br>
I found no uses of natural=table or table_land or tableland or tableland<br>
<br>
Is natural=plateau the best option? This sounds fine to me, as an<br>
American English speaker, but I'd like to know if it's the best<br>
British English option.<br>
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