[Talk-GB] A moutain range in Cornwall??

[Chris Hodges]

On 10/02/2024 14:46, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
> I just stumbled across a "mountain_range" in Cornwall! Really?
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11256891324#map=18/50.41667/-4.83306
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> This looks like nonsense? Does someone have time to look i
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> OK so Google says the Slovak translates as "Cornish Highlands" and 
> there are a load of hills in the right place (of which Hensbarrow 
> Downs is the tallest at 364m).
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> So not really mountains, but should we regard it as a range of hills? 
> Currently the Quantocks aren't tagged as such, though they probably 
> could be, and there's no hill_range (going by Wikipedia 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_range> we could easily use 
> mountain_range to cover well-defined ranges of hills too).
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> Wikipedia, in fact, in its List of Hills of Cornwall 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hills_of_Cornwall>, Includes 
> Hensbarrow <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensbarrow> in the "range" 
> column.
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> So it's not as ridiculous as it seems; changing the name to 
> "Hensbarrow" would be a reasonable outcome if we were to accept that a 
> range of hills could be tagged the same as a range of mountains
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> In general (Overpass 
> <https://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=%2F*%0AThis+has+been+generated+by+the+overpass-turbo+wizard.%0AThe+original+search+was%3A%0A%E2%80%9Cnatural%3Dmountain_range%E2%80%9D%0A*%2F%0A%5Bout%3Ajson%5D%5Btimeout%3A25%5D%3B%0A%2F%2F+gather+results%0Anwr%5B%22natural%22%3D%22mountain_range%22%5D%28%7B%7Bbbox%7D%7D%29%3B%0A%2F%2F+print+results%0Aout+geom%3B&C=54.124626%3B-5.678558%3B9>) 
> the mountain_range tag is lightly used in the UK, missing plenty of 
> obvious ones (Bannau Brycheiniog for example, though Eryri is 
> tagged).  Many also have a name:sk, suggesting the same mapper as this 
> one. Its use in NI is particularly suspect, seemingly for individual 
> peaks in a small area.
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> So the question becomes: do we tag ranges of hills as mountain_range?
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> Chris
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> On 10/02/2024 14:46, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
>> I just stumbled across a "mountain_range" in Cornwall! Really?
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11256891324#map=18/50.41667/-4.83306
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>> This looks like nonsense? Does someone have time to look into this?
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>> ael
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> nto this?
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> ael
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