Andy, On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 3:36 PM Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suspect that trying to rely on wikidata/wikipedia for this link will > fail for a different reason though - the things that we tag in OSM won't > necessarily map 1 to 1 onto wikipedia pages. Sometimes an OSMer will > want to indicate that a wider area than is indicated in > GVP/wikipedia/wikidata, but much more often an OSMer will be tagging an > individual volcano that might not match where a historical eruption took > place (think Thera / Santorini, where a famous eruption left a big hole, > now surrounded by numerous modern features). > Santorini is listed in GVP's database. See http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=212040. There was an eruption in 1950. Though this isn't the same as to what you were referring to. > > It does make sense to use (and document) GVP's "active" definition in > OSM, but there will be places in OSM where it's not a good fit, because > what was there that erupted earlier in the last few thousand years isn't > there now. > GVP also has a Pleistocene Volcano List for volcanoes that erupted during the Pleistocene period. They consider this database preliminary. > > > -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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