[Imports] Spanish mountain ranges import.

[Daniel Capilla]

Hi,

I'm Daniel from Spain. No connection with the Spanish community.

A mountain range is a physical thing, not a cultural category. I 
understand that it can be interpreted as a cultural category as well, 
ethnographic if you prefer, but mountain ranges are physical, they exist 
on the ground, not just on maps.

Verifiability of geometry is not a relevant issue in this import. The 
OSM verifiability principle accepts that some geometries are not 
verifiable. [1]

This import proposes to map mountain ranges as a node. This is a 
reasonable option. It follows the recommendations set out in the wiki 
for mapping such features. There are tens, hundreds of thousands of 
places mapped in this way, with a node and a name, and they are not 
problematic. They are even correctly mapped according to the mapping 
guidelines. In this case we are talking about mountain range whose names 
are known and must necessarily be tagged with "natural=mountain_range". 
There is no other way to do it.

I have no relation with the Spanish community, as I said, and I don't 
care if mountain ranges are imported or not. Sergio wrote to me a few 
days ago to get my opinion on this proposal. I did not consider it 
particularly problematic. I warned him that the wiki documentation 
reflects how people use the tag, not how it should be used. This was the 
main problem I found.

However, mountain ranges are being mapped with that tag as of today. And 
this proposal follows the established recommendations to map mountain 
ranges. If this proposal does not go ahead for the reasons mentioned so 
far, it means that there is no acceptable way to map these features in 
OSM today. In short, you cannot map mountain ranges in OSM.

Shouldn't this be explained on the wiki in some way?

Thanks for your collaboration, and thanks to Sergio for the time 
dedicated to this proposal.

Greetings from Spain.

Regards,

Daniel

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability#Verifiable_geometries
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