<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Currently the features with the tag "name=Kebnekaise" are 2 ways which extend north-south and to the west from these two peaks and are also tagged natural=arete (an arete is a knife-edged ridge formed between 2 glaciers). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/123215393#map=13/67.8934/18.4509&layers=C">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/123215393#map=13/67.8934/18.4509&layers=C</a> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/407174801#map=14/67.8999/18.5215&layers=C">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/407174801#map=14/67.8999/18.5215&layers=C</a><div><br></div><div>Is this correct based on your local knowledge of the area?</div><div><br></div><div>If in fact Kebnekaise is the name of the ridges or aretes, then this is a good way to represent the name of the "mountain" which in this case appears to be a thin ridge between glaciers. </div><div><br></div><div>Note that Opentopomap handles this fairly well: <a href="https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=14/67.90026/18.50553">https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=14/67.90026/18.50553</a> and <a href="https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=13/67.90113/18.46716">https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=13/67.90113/18.46716</a></div><div><br></div><div>I believe OpenTopoMap also renders natural=mountain_range ways: <a href="https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=12/38.4613/-4.1566">https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=12/38.4613/-4.1566</a></div><div><br></div><div>OpenTopoMap uses a special script to assign an isolation value to each peak: that is, how far is it away from another natural=peak (or natural=volcano) with a larger elevation value? If it is a long way, the peak will be rendered even at low zoom levels (large scales), for example: <a href="https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=7/67.900/18.479">https://www.opentopomap.org/#map=7/67.900/18.479</a></div><div><br></div><div>This hasn't been implemented in the OpenStreetMap-Carto style because it is somewhat complicated and might have performance problems and there are issues with using more pre-processing of the raw data when it comes to mapper feedback, but the code used by OpenTopoMap is here: <a href="https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/pull/129">https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/pull/129</a> and <a href="https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/pull/130">https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/pull/130</a> if anyone else wants to implement this for their own maps.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Joseph</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:14 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 13, 2020, 19:58 by <a href="mailto:anders@torger.se" target="_blank">anders@torger.se</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><p>Do you have a suggestion of how to map Sweden's highest mountain, Kebnekaise?<br></p><p>The mountain is called Kebnekaise, it has two peaks, one is called "Sydtoppen" ("the south peak"), the other "Nordtoppen" ("the north peak").<br></p></blockquote><div>I admit that I have no good idea, if I would run into such case and failed to find a better idea<br></div><div>(hopefully one will come) I would invent a new way to tag that.<br></div><div><br></div><div>natural=mountain? Main problem is where to put it - node at arbitrary position between peaks?<br></div><div>Node at location of highest peak? Area? Relation? All of that is sadly problematic.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><p>(The mountain_range tag is a great tag, but I note that its status is just "in use", it's not an approved tag :-O.)<br></p></blockquote><div>It is perfectly fine to use tags that never went through tagging proposal, though<br></div><div>I am not going to endorse this one. Tagging mountain ranges seems to poorly fit OSM<br></div><div>with multiple different opinions where mountain range starts/ends and inability to<br></div><div>verify it by survey.<br></div><div><br></div><div>All tags were in some stage rarely used before becoming heavily used,<br></div><div>only some cases went through a proposal process.<br></div> </div>
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