[Talk-us] Spot elevations collected as natural=peak and name=Point (height in feet)

[Kevin Broderick]

I'm familiar with some cases where the peaks named thusly on USGS topos
have given their names to the backcountry ski runs in the vicinity. From
that standpoint, they are valuable (and often-used) local landmarks, and I
can understand *why* people would be tagging for the renderer (assuming
that is why they're getting tagging natural=peak).

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems that there are a couple of mappers in Colorado US (at least,
> perhaps mapping in other areas as well) who are adding spot elevations
> (presumably from USGS Topo maps) to OSM tagging them as
> natural=peak
> name=Point (elevation in feet)
>
> For example:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4601119717
>
> What does the community think about this?
>
> natural=peak might be ok if said spot elevation is really a local high
> point (some are not).  The name I am less sure of. If this belongs on the
> map at all, it should probably have an ele tag, with value in meters.
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Kevin Broderick
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