Relations are quite obnoxious in regular editing and also during actually using the data.
Dec 14, 2020, 08:07 by [email protected]: > > Why is the relation problematic (honest question)? > > > I was starting to think that some sort of naming relation could be the > answer, ie you put both peaks in a relation with for example type=name; > natural=mountain; name=Kebnekaise. > > > In addition one should write clearly that peak serves dual purpose both as > naming peaks and mountains. Today on the wiki the peak is clearly defined as > only the summit, but it's often used as naming mountains where the peak is > nameless. > > > What we also could have is fuzzy naming areas, which we would need in some > way or another at some point anyway, so you would have an area covering the > mountain with name=Kebnekaise. I would have no problem with that, but it > seems to that it must be in a separate database as it just too controversial > to be in the main database. > > > /Anders > > > On 2020-12-13 21:12, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > > >> >> >> >> Dec 13, 2020, 19:58 by [email protected]: >> >>> >>> Do you have a suggestion of how to map Sweden's highest mountain, >>> Kebnekaise? >>> >>> >>> The mountain is called Kebnekaise, it has two peaks, one is called >>> "Sydtoppen" ("the south peak"), the other "Nordtoppen" ("the north peak"). >>> >>> >> I admit that I have no good idea, if I would run into such case and failed >> to find a better idea >> (hopefully one will come) I would invent a new way to tag that. >> >> natural=mountain? Main problem is where to put it - node at arbitrary >> position between peaks? >> Node at location of highest peak? Area? Relation? All of that is sadly >> problematic. >> >>> >>> (The mountain_range tag is a great tag, but I note that its status is just >>> "in use", it's not an approved tag :-O.) >>> >>> >> It is perfectly fine to use tags that never went through tagging proposal, >> though >> I am not going to endorse this one. Tagging mountain ranges seems to poorly >> fit OSM >> with multiple different opinions where mountain range starts/ends and >> inability to >> verify it by survey. >> >> All tags were in some stage rarely used before becoming heavily used, >> only some cases went through a proposal process. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > >
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