[Tagging] Problem with rendering natural=saddle

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 10 October 2014, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> Typically saddles are shown on maps with something like
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mountain_pass_locator
>
> Unfortunately according to the current proposal saddles are mapped as
>
> directionless nodes, therefore proper rendering is not possible.

In principle the orientation can often quite reliably be determined from 
elevation data - this is of course not so easy to do with the normal 
rendering framework.

In general orientation of a saddle is also a function of the scale you 
look at - for example this:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2001818936

has an east-west orientation when you look at it closely but on a coarse 
scale it is a north-south crossing.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/