An alpine hut is a hut in high mountains as the alpine climate is a high-mountain climate or an alpine plant is a plant that grows in alpine climates. Alpine hut is used in this sense in OSM. There is even a wine growing area in Australia called Alpine Valleys, if I am not mistaken. :-)
Volker On 27 March 2013 14:21, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/3/27 St Niklaas <[email protected]>: > > Since the hut is situated in Australia, why name it Alpine hut ? I always > > thought the Alps to be a European mountain range. In rural uninhabited > areas > > there will be shelters like it all over the world. > > > well, the alps are in Europe, no doubt, but that doesn't necessarily > mean that "alpine hut" isn't a prototype that could be found also > outside the alps (and therefor the tag might be useful also outside > the alps). Not sure what exactly the OSM definition for an "alpine > hut" is, especially as there were some modifications to this page last > year which now state that the hut must be "managed during the opening > period" (not true for some place I know of, which I would nonetheless > classify as alpine_hut). > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Atourism%3Dalpine_hut&diff=768391&oldid=689867 > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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