[Talk-us] Tagging Ridges as ways

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dridge seems to suggest that the appropriate way to tag a ridge is as a way. Any thoughts on this? I'm looking at 100+ ridges, wondering how to simplify (de-node) yet keep the way roughly following to contours of the feature it's supposed to be

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging Ridges as ways

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dridge seems to suggest that the appropriate way to tag a ridge is as a way. Any thoughts on this? I’m looking at 100+ ridges, wondering how to simplify (de-node) yet

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging Ridges as ways

I have tagged numerous ridges (dozens, at least), always as a way. To me, it doesn't make sense for a ridge to be a single node, that semantic might be better conveyed with natural=peak. I include a medium-sized mountain range, the Santa Cruz Mountains (www.osm.org/browse/way/174808173),