[Tagging] Topographic place names

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:26:55 Steve Bennett wrote:Yes please!  I just added
> some hiking trails and had a named spur[1] that I
> wanted to record.  I used place=locality, but it seems wrong for the same
> reasons you give.  I'd suggest that since we have natural=peak, and
> natural=saddle we should have natural=spur.  natural=ridge, if it's not
> already used, should be for ridges.


natural=ridge is widely used (~8000) for ridges:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=ridge
There's also natural=arrete (273):
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=arete

Remarkably, there is not a single use of natural=spur. Maybe people just
tag them as ridges? Could use natural=ridge, ridge=spur to be more precise
perhaps.



>  Perhaps we could also have
> natural=feature for a general named 'thing' that is visible and well known.
>
>
174 examples already:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=feature#overview
Taginfo doesn't seem to show any other information on them - I'd like to
see how else they're being used.

Steve
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