[Tagging] Active volcanoes

Cascafico Giovanni cascafico at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 14:52:07 UTC 2020


So "active" is ment in geological time... rather wide for OSM :-)

How to tag its recent activity, ie for touristic purposes?

Il ven 24 gen 2020, 14:40 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> ha scritto:

> On Friday 24 January 2020, Cascafico Giovanni wrote:
> >
> > Which is the criteria to tag volcanoes as volcano:status=active?
>
> That tag is practically non-verifiable and therefore does not really
> belong in OSM.  But since everyone is free to add any tags they want in
> OSM such tags of course exist.
>
> Reason for the lack of verifiability is that what an active volcano is
> in almost all uses of this term does not depend on the current state of
> the volcano but on its history - most commonly during the holocene (10k
> years) or during historic times.
>
>

Il 24 gen 2020 2:40 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <osm at imagico.de> ha scritto:

On Friday 24 January 2020, Cascafico Giovanni wrote:
>
> Which is the criteria to tag volcanoes as volcano:status=active?

That tag is practically non-verifiable and therefore does not really
belong in OSM.  But since everyone is free to add any tags they want in
OSM such tags of course exist.

Reason for the lack of verifiability is that what an active volcano is
in almost all uses of this term does not depend on the current state of
the volcano but on its history - most commonly during the holocene (10k
years) or during historic times.


-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/


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