[Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names

[Jo]

ele can of course be in feett or lightyears for that matter, but it's a lot
easier to work with if they are all in the same unit.

2017-09-08 0:22 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> 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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