<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I agree with you that this is the scale that volcanologists use, but people want to draw a distinction between something that erupted recently compared sometime in the last 200 years<div><br></div><div>Perhaps it is easier to just apply the “active” and “Frequently active” tags via this third-party data source, but it would completely remove mapper’s ability to add a mountain to this list via tagging. </div><div><br></div><div>Inventing a separate schema seems like a bad idea, but I don’t think people understand “active” could mean an eruption before the industrial revolution, and people seem to want to add more granularity to this data. Maybe that is a bad idea, but should be considered. </div><div><div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Javbw</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 27, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I saw reference to this site a little while back (ironically, the morning of the White Island eruption in New Zealand :-()</div><div><a href="https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=activevolcanoes" target="_blank">https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=activevolcanoes</a></div><div><br></div><div>So what do we say: 43 / 70 / 565 / 871 or 1428? :-)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eov_noteworthy" target="_blank">https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eov_noteworthy</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Or possibly the 71 "Frequently Active" listed here?</div><div><br></div><div>As they say, it's hard to point at a volcano & say it's active or not!</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Responding to my own post after looking at the site a bit more</div><div><br></div><div>How about using the common terms that everyone recognises, together with OSM definitions of:</div><div><br></div><div>Active - Known to have had major / multiple / fatal eruptions; frequently active; significant lava flows - the 186 volcanoes that are listed as "Noteworthy"</div><div><br></div><div>Dormant - probably the 1428 "Historically Active" - confirmed & likely historical eruptions (mixing historical & Holocene together)</div><div><br></div><div>Extinct - ain't nothing happening no more! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>This does, of course, relate to using info from that list. Do any of our US friends know how helpful the Smithsonian is when it comes to sharing data? <a href="https://www.si.edu/termsofuse/">https://www.si.edu/termsofuse/</a></div><div><br></div><div> Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote></div></div>
<span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Tagging mailing list</span><br><span>Tagging@openstreetmap.org</span><br><span>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>