[Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names

[Dave Swarthout]

Adding numeric values to the name of a peak is not okay. As for using feet
in the "ele" tag instead of meters, JOSM discourages this practice and I
think we should too. It's long past the time when Americans and other
countries still using archaic and cumbersome measurement systems based on
the length of the king's foot or thumb should embrace the metric system.
The down side is that very peak I add involves an extra step.

Cheers,

Dave

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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