> "I know a number of landforms which have the name Plateau and are exactly "an
> flat-topped landform that is elevated above the surrounding terrain and
> surrounded by cliffs.".
In this case, my recommendation is to tag these features as
natural=mesa. You can map this as an area (closed way
I think more needs to be done to distinguish when to use natural=plateau vs
natural=mesa. I know a number of landforms which have the name Plateau and
are exactly "an flat-topped landform that is elevated above the surrounding
terrain and surrounded by cliffs.".
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 20:32,
On 4/26/19, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> As i understand it a butte is not generally assumed to be flat topped in
> common language use, the key elements here are height larger than width
> and cliffs on all sides.
That's true. The top is only relatively flat compared to the surrounding cliffs.
>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:natural%3Dmesa
> need to make it clear in the description how it differs from plateau/butte
>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:natural%3Dbutte
> need to make it clear in the description how it differs from
27 Apr 2019, 01:54 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:
> A few people continue to add unused tags and properties to feature
> definitions, e.g. looking at the page for tourism=guesthouse, which is quite
> long in the meantime, you can find "proposed" values with names like
> "fridge"
> "stove"
>
