<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 30, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" class="">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Depends?<br class=""><br class="">Warning - my interpretation!<br class=""><br class="">SADDLE = low point between two high points (mountains), it does not descend near the level of the adjacent valleys.<br class=""><br class="">PASS =A gap in a range of mountains or hills permitting easier passage from one side to the other, it descends near the level of the adjacent valleys.<br class=""><br class="">This gives me a difference between 'pass' and 'saddle',otherwise they appear to be the same?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">If it were a 'pass' then that would make the range into two separate ways.<br class="">If it is a saddle then it does not break the range, but forms part of it.<br class=""><br class="">Some mountain ranges do not have crest along their entire length .. yet they are a mountain range along the entire length.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Hmmm. Then many of the passes, including Donner Pass and Tioga Pass, in California’s Sierra Nevada are actually saddles?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve assumed that a pass was simply a saddle that was a convenient route for travel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking at <a href="https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/11/gap-vs-pass-vs-notch-vs-saddle.html" class="">https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/11/gap-vs-pass-vs-notch-vs-saddle.html</a> maybe the difference between pass, saddle, gap and passage - at least in the US - is mostly a difference in regional dialect. In which case I guess OSM can do its usual and try to formalize the use and definition of one that most closely matches UK usage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>