[Tagging] Flat area in the mountains

[stevea]

I love it, Tod.  Yes, any time I even stray into the dangerous realm of tagging that this is (as I mentioned, I've dabbled in Central California in OSM with a small bit of this) it's never on strict or precise boundaries.  A way very, very roughly might trace a "spine" of a mountain_range, similarly for a valley and I might have seen a "hollow" or two (in Appalachia, I don't recall in California).  Sometimes, a node is correct, like for natural=saddle.  Tagging varies, naming varies, these kinds of "edges" can be fuzzy.  Like seeing "Rockies" on a patch of North American mountains at a very wide scale:  where is that?  (Exactly:  it isn't really quite very exactly).  I've used the example of Alps in a number of different languages (four or five, in Switzerland, I think) and the where of the edges is "fuzzy."

A bit of that in a map (like OSM) isn't terrible.  It becomes a question of "how useful are these data?" and that can be a hard question to answer if the specifics of the question(s) haven't been asked (yet).

Who says we don't make maps around here?  We do.  Sometimes the edges are fuzzy, but we do get better.