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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/12/20 4:28 pm, stevea wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Right, Graeme, there ARE such signs. That's an important chunk of truth, right there. Another one, more germane to where it "goes south" (sorry if that insults those in the Southern Hemisphere, it isn't meant to) is "but where does this mountain range END?" The foothills...one trails off as one describes a steppe or plateau or "flat range" or whatever Aussies call that part of "no longer in the mountains" below that range. And that isn't a crisp line. OSM likes crisp lines. It doesn't seem to like "I can't quite say where this begins and ends" and that's what we have here.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Dec 27, 2020, at 9:22 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com"><graemefitz1@gmail.com></a> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 14:55, stevea <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com"><steveaOSM@softworkers.com></a> wrote:
something isn't verifiable and we're back to that.
But if you stop anywhere along it's length, point to a mountain & ask a local, "What Range is that mountain part of?", they'll all say the Great Dividing Range.
I've personally seen road signs that say you are crossing the Great Dividing Range.
Lots of articles talk about & map it.
Don't these things all make it verifiable?
& on the subject of maps, here's a beautifully fuzzy one! :-) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range">https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range</a>
What would be the problem of more-or-less duplicating that in OSM & calling it the Great Dividing Range. No, it's not what I'd call accurate, but it tells you that there are lumpy bits in that area! :-)
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<pre>There are a few 'dividing ranges' .. and some variation on what it means.
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<pre>A divide is the elevated boundary between areas that are drained by different river systems.
The term "Great Dividing Range" may refer specifically to the 'watershed crest of the range', or to the entire upland complex including all of the hills and mountains.
A continental divide separates the watersheds of an entire continent.
The American Great Divide separates the watersheds of North America between the Pacific (west) and the Arctic, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico (east).
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The watershed crest would be a simple way in OSM and that could be estimated from the starting points of all the water ways.
That would be considerably less fuzzy that the area of hills and mountains as estimating which hills and mountains and where they stop compared to flat lands and valleys would be very fuzzy.
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