[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Enhancing natural=peak tag

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-08 15:59 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel at xn--ko-wla.pl>:

> I just made the proposal page for discussion about enhancing natural=peak
> tag:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/peak
>
> This is my first attempt to define OSM features.
>


I am not sure this is something we'd want in OSM for at least 2 reasons:

1. As you (and wikipedia) write, there is no clear distinction between
mountain and hill, so this is subjective (you write it in the proposal)

2. The analysis of the other peaks in the area and the topography in
general can be done automatically both, based on OSM data and on additional
elevation data (like from hgt rasters, Aster, SRTM, other DEMs, etc.)

So this is probably not something we'd have to map manually, as it could be
automatically derived. I agree that the current rendering is not always
optimal, but this could be resolved in the rendering system, no need to do
it in the base data. Or maybe I got you wrong?

Cheers,
Martin
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