[Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 22:22:21 UTC 2017
On 08-Sep-17 07:39 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On 09/07/2017 04:31 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>> User Raymo853 and I are having a friendly discussion on changeset
>> 50470413[1]. He has been adding the elevation of mountain peaks (in
>> feet) to the name tag. For example, he changed "Crown Point" to "Crown
>> Point 11,463 ft."[2] While the wiki doesn't specifically address the
>> issue of elevation as part of a peak name, it does say "Name is the name
>> only"[3].
>>
>> Could we get feedback from the wider community on this?
> That's what this is for: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele
>
> The only catch is that it has to be in meters, so you would tag
> ele=3493.9 in your example.
>
+1 to name tag is name only.
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ele tag should be used for this information.
And I would think that the ele value can be in feet just like other
dimensional units of width, height etc.
Should this be put as a new proposal?
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