Key:mountain_pass

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+/- mountain_pass Description This item marks a mountain pass. Element help Useful combination name= ele= Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

Description

This item marks the highest point of a mountain pass way. Unfortunately, the term "mountain pass" is ambiguous (see Wikipedia). The meaning can be the whole road (or footway) up and down a mountain or the saddle point. Maps usually "special mark" only the latter (often with the corresponding elevation) and that's what mountain_pass=yes is meant to be for. If you want to mark the saddle point, see natural=saddle.

A mountain_pass=yes tag should be the highest point of the way so it's a single node on that way.

Usage

Applies to the "highest node" on a highway = motorway/secondary/footway/... (could be any appropriate "highway"):

• mountain_pass=yes
• name=Brennerpass
• ele=1370 (meter over sea level)

Lots of passes are the border between two countries and therefore have names in (at least) two languages. These names should be tagged, e.g. name:it=Passo dello Stelvio and name:de=Stilfserjoch (but keep in addition a simple name=Passo dello Stelvio where possible, otherwise simple renderers may display no name at all). The corresponding language abbreviations can be found at ISO639-1 codes.

Optional:

• wikipedia=*

A lot of the well-known passes have dedicated Wikipedia pages.

Icon

A mountain pass is usually depicted with a "bridge like" symbol:

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So with a way going trough it, this looks like:

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If the symbol is not oriented along the way it can look like that or with simple point with name and altitude.

Examples

I don't know who put this image in, but the maps I had a look at used the pass symbol the way depicted as in the icon section - the bridge like symbol being along the way and not crossing the way as on this image?!? -- Ulfl 11:43, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

The bridge is along the way because it is a way (linear) property. A mountain pass should be a node property. In some case a mountain pass is depicted as a simple point.--Alban 12:55, 11 November 2007 (UTC)