[Tagging] Active volcanoes

[John Willis]

I agree with you that this is the scale that volcanologists use, but people want to draw a distinction between something that erupted recently compared sometime in the last 200 years

Perhaps it is easier to just apply the “active” and “Frequently active” tags via this third-party data source, but it would completely remove mapper’s ability to add a mountain to this list via tagging. 

Inventing a separate schema seems like a bad idea, but I don’t think people understand “active” could mean an eruption before the industrial revolution, and people seem to want to add more granularity to this data. Maybe that is a bad idea, but should be considered. 

Javbw

> On Jan 27, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw reference to this site a little while back (ironically, the morning of the White Island eruption in New Zealand :-()
>> https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=activevolcanoes
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>> So what do we say: 43 / 70 / 565 / 871 or 1428? :-)
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>> https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eov_noteworthy  
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>> Or possibly the 71 "Frequently Active" listed here?
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>> As they say, it's hard to point at a volcano & say it's active or not!
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> Responding to my own post after looking at the site a bit more
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> How about using the common terms that everyone recognises, together with OSM definitions of:
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> Active - Known to have had major / multiple / fatal eruptions; frequently active; significant lava flows - the 186 volcanoes that are listed as "Noteworthy"
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> Dormant - probably the 1428 "Historically Active" - confirmed & likely historical eruptions (mixing historical & Holocene together)
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> Extinct - ain't nothing happening no more! :-)
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> This does, of course, relate to using info from that list. Do any of our US friends know how helpful the Smithsonian is when it comes to sharing data? https://www.si.edu/termsofuse/
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>   Thanks
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> Graeme
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