> it won't be a clearly defined border where some meters more or less matter or 
> are clearly definable

IMO one can always ask the locals/local geologists "is this location/point a 
part of the mountain/mountain range". At some point, "everybody" agrees that it 
is, and somewhere further down the slope "everybody" agrees it's not. It 
doesn't matter much where - between those points - the way is. That's still 
usable data, and it will getter better as more locals edit it, to refine it and 
to add smaller details. And they'll soon be multipolygons because the way 
length limit will often be exceeded.

However, it would be good if somebody (preferably a geologist by trade, and 
preferably several from different countries) were to write a nice short summary 
of the different possible "scientific" thresholds for "where the mountain 
starts". Then mappers could use a more specific tag to say which kind of 
boundary they were drawing, before we have ways denoting areas constructed from 
significantly different attributes.

-- 
Alv
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