[Tagging] Wiki page for natural=mountain_range

[Tod Fitch]

> On Apr 30, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Depends?
> 
> Warning - my interpretation!
> 
> SADDLE = low point between two high points (mountains), it does not descend near the level of the adjacent valleys.
> 
> PASS =A gap in a range of mountains or hills permitting easier passage from one side to the other, it descends near the level of the adjacent valleys.
> 
> This gives me a difference between 'pass' and 'saddle',otherwise they appear to be the same?
> 
> 
> If it were a 'pass' then that would make the range into two separate ways.
> If it is a saddle then it does not break the range, but forms part of it.
> 
> Some mountain ranges do not have crest along their entire length .. yet they are a mountain range along the entire length.
> 

Hmmm. Then many of the passes, including Donner Pass and Tioga Pass, in California’s Sierra Nevada are actually saddles?

I’ve assumed that a pass was simply a saddle that was a convenient route for travel.

Looking at https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/11/gap-vs-pass-vs-notch-vs-saddle.html <https://www.vividmaps.com/2018/11/gap-vs-pass-vs-notch-vs-saddle.html> maybe the difference between pass, saddle, gap and passage - at least in the US - is mostly a difference in regional dialect. In which case I guess OSM can do its usual and try to formalize the use and definition of one that most closely matches UK usage.


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