I agree with you that this is the scale that volcanologists use, but people want to draw a distinction between something that erupted recently compared sometime in the last 200 years
Perhaps it is easier to just apply the “active” and “Frequently active” tags via this third-party data source, but it would completely remove mapper’s ability to add a mountain to this list via tagging. Inventing a separate schema seems like a bad idea, but I don’t think people understand “active” could mean an eruption before the industrial revolution, and people seem to want to add more granularity to this data. Maybe that is a bad idea, but should be considered. Javbw > On Jan 27, 2020, at 3:14 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 14:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> I saw reference to this site a little while back (ironically, the morning of >> the White Island eruption in New Zealand :-() >> https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=activevolcanoes >> >> So what do we say: 43 / 70 / 565 / 871 or 1428? :-) >> >> https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eov_noteworthy >> >> Or possibly the 71 "Frequently Active" listed here? >> >> As they say, it's hard to point at a volcano & say it's active or not! > > Responding to my own post after looking at the site a bit more > > How about using the common terms that everyone recognises, together with OSM > definitions of: > > Active - Known to have had major / multiple / fatal eruptions; frequently > active; significant lava flows - the 186 volcanoes that are listed as > "Noteworthy" > > Dormant - probably the 1428 "Historically Active" - confirmed & likely > historical eruptions (mixing historical & Holocene together) > > Extinct - ain't nothing happening no more! :-) > > This does, of course, relate to using info from that list. Do any of our US > friends know how helpful the Smithsonian is when it comes to sharing data? > https://www.si.edu/termsofuse/ > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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