I'm a little bit late to this, since I don't read the list regularly, but I have some thoughts about this, and I hope something moves forward.
1. I think that if we render saddles, it would also be good to render ridge lines. Most maps I've seen render either both or neither. I think they certainly look more complete together. 2. While I think rendering a saddle/pass/col with the bridge icon would be better; I think that for the time being, just rendering the name would be fine. This is what the current USGS maps do. 3. While we could get direction from elevation data from elsewhere, it has it's issues. Elevation data can be misleading, particularly in rugged terrain. 4. In the above example of Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard, I would think the col is clearly east-west-ish. Sure, the road goes north-south, but where it meets the ridge, it goes east-west. There is a north-south col at Fenêtre de Ferret (http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/292049137) 5. I haven't looked at the rendering code yet, but would it be possible to define a col/saddle/pass as a point along a ridgeline, and its direction to be perpendicular to that line? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
