Sounds like a definition set by politicians. :) I can think of a number of areas in the US west that would count as mountains by that definition if approached from one direction but not the other. Mogollon Rim for one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Rim
-Tod On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > 2013/9/12 Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> > What's a mountain what's a desert? Depends where you are. > > > well, wikipedia says: "Deserts generally receive less than 250 millimetres > (10 in) of rain (precipitation) each year.[1] Semideserts or steppes are > regions which receive between 250 millimetres (10 in) and 400 to 500 > millimetres (16 to 20 in)." and states that the biggest desert on earth is > the antarctic desert (quite different setting from what one usually thinks > about by the term desert, isn't it?) > > For mountains it seems indeed relative, although the UN has a universal > definition for "mountainous environment" (also from WP), any of these: > Elevation of at least 2,500 m (8,200 ft); > Elevation of at least 1,500 m (4,900 ft), with a slope greater than 2 degrees; > Elevation of at least 1,000 m (3,300 ft), with a slope greater than 5 degrees; > Elevation of at least 300 m (980 ft), with a 300 m (980 ft) elevation range > within 7 km (4.3 mi). > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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