<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="">That doesn’t seem right to me. Natural=peak is for actual high points in the landscape, and should be named by their established names, if available. Elevation, as you say, should be in meters on the ele tag.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best thing to do is probably to send these folks a kind note pointing out OSM conventions and asking them to cease. You could point out that there’s OSM based topo maps that overlay elevation info on OSM data. The lovely <a href="http://toposm.ahlzen.com/" class="">http://toposm.ahlzen.com/</a> comes to mind, but there’s also opentopomap.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Martijn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 7, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Mike Thompson <<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com" class="">miketho16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">It seems that there are a couple of mappers in Colorado US (at least, perhaps mapping in other areas as well) who are adding spot elevations (presumably from USGS Topo maps) to OSM tagging them as </div><div class="">natural=peak</div><div class="">name=Point (elevation in feet)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For example:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4601119717" class="">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4601119717</a><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What does the community think about this?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">natural=peak might be ok if said spot elevation is really a local high point (some are not). The name I am less sure of. If this belongs on the map at all, it should probably have an ele tag, with value in meters.</div></div>
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