[Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names

[Andrew Hain]

Or, indeed, you could put a conversion in the editor between the mapper typing a figure in and the elevation being saved to the database.

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From: Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>
Sent: 08 September 2017 02:59:39
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names

On 08-Sep-17 09:10 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
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.

Aviation still uses feet?
Asking a mapper who may not be familiar with conversion into meters leads to errors. I'd rather have the render do the conversion as is done for other dimensions.

Cheers,

Dave

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