Plateau, table, tablelands all used in Australia. landform=plateau has 5 usages https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landform=plateau
natural=plateau seems fine to me. Could be called walls sometimes, but to me it's unclear if that's the term for the plateau or the cliffs that surround the plateau. On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 14:56, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised that I can't find an established tag or wiki page for a > plateau, mesa, or tableland; an area of raised land that is flat on > top: > > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau and > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa and > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(landform) > > Small plateaus or mesas may be called a "Butte" in the USA, or a > tableland in some English-speaking regions. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butte > > They are known as "Mesas" in Spanish-speaking areas and related > languages. I believe "plateau" is from French? > > These features are common in arid areas of the southwestern United > States and in many other places that have the appropriate geology: > usually there is a hard layer of rock on top of softer layers. This > often forms a flat area with steep slopes or even cliffs at the sides. > They can also from from volcanic activity, or from glaciation. > > I searched taginfo for "tableland", "table_land", "table-land", > "plateau" and "mesa". > > There are 94 natural=plateau and 3 natural=mesa. > I found no uses of natural=table or table_land or tableland or tableland > > Is natural=plateau the best option? This sounds fine to me, as an > American English speaker, but I'd like to know if it's the best > British English option. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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