That doesn’t seem right to me. Natural=peak is for actual high points in the landscape, and should be named by their established names, if available. Elevation, as you say, should be in meters on the ele tag.
Best thing to do is probably to send these folks a kind note pointing out OSM conventions and asking them to cease. You could point out that there’s OSM based topo maps that overlay elevation info on OSM data. The lovely http://toposm.ahlzen.com/ <http://toposm.ahlzen.com/> comes to mind, but there’s also opentopomap. Martijn > On Mar 7, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems that there are a couple of mappers in Colorado US (at least, perhaps > mapping in other areas as well) who are adding spot elevations (presumably > from USGS Topo maps) to OSM tagging them as > natural=peak > name=Point (elevation in feet) > > For example: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4601119717 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4601119717> > > What does the community think about this? > > natural=peak might be ok if said spot elevation is really a local high point > (some are not). The name I am less sure of. If this belongs on the map at > all, it should probably have an ele tag, with value in meters. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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