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Definitions of "mountain" based on elevation seem to be apocryphal,
as far as I can tell. I've had several debates on Wikipedia with
people who claim that "the Ordnance Survey defines anything over
2000ft as a mountain", and otherwise reputable sources such as the
BBC and the Guardian repeat the same claim, but no-one can produce
any official expression of this convention in any OS publication.
"The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain"
notwithstanding, I think it's a myth.<br>
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Dave<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/02/2024 11:52, Chris Smith wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I've always
understood a proper mountain to be over 3000ft or 1000Metres -
maybe this comes from the Munro's which are Scottish and over
3000' . <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Wikipedia has
it as 2000 ft. <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_and_hills_in_the_British_Isles"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_and_hills_in_the_British_Isles</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In North East
Wales there are a lot of hills called mountains which are not
really very high at all - for example Flint Mountain ( 296ft),
Hope Mountain, Buckley Mountain, Ewloe Mountain etc. I suspect
calling these Mountains comes from an English translation of
a more general Welsh Name.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Not sure this
helps, but best I can do!<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 11:34,
Nick Whitelegg <<a href="mailto:nickw4426@gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">When I was a child I remember being told that a
mountain was anything over around 300m / 1000ft. So by that
definition Cornwall does indeed have mountains, but then
again it would also imply that the Cotswolds includes
mountains and Berkshire is within a few metres of doing so!
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<div>I suppose it begs the question "what is a mountain?" </div>
<div>Rather a subjective term but I guess something that
rises around 500 metres above the surrounding land and is
rugged, rocky and potentially hazardous in the wrong
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at
2:11 PM ael via Talk-GB <<a
href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">talk-gb@openstreetmap.org</a>>
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Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:46:16PM +0000, ael via Talk-GB
wrote:<br>
> I just stumbled across a "mountain_range" in
Cornwall! Really?<br>
> <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11256891324#map=18/50.41667/-4.83306"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11256891324#map=18/50.41667/-4.83306</a><br>
> <br>
> This looks like nonsense? Does someone have time to
look into this?<br>
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I left a short changeset comment, and the original mapper
has deleted<br>
the node.<br>
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ael<br>
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