Proposed features/Valley

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Valley
Status: Proposed (under way)
Proposed by: pshunter
Tagging: natural=valley
Applies to: area
Definition: Area between mountains
Rendered as: undecided
Draft start: 2009-02-07
RFC start: *
Vote start: *
Vote end: *

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Definition

A valley is a geological structure found between mountains.

Usage

natural=valley Some of the boundaries of valleys are not defined clearly. The fuzziness of these boundaries could be denoted by using the fuzzy tag. For most valleys a multipolygon relation should be used, since different values of fuzziness apply to their boundaries (along the side of the mountains and perpendicular to the valley’s axis when it stops at the sea or inside another, larger valley). The fuzzy tags should remain on the individual ways in the relation.

See also

This is part of a group of proposals to include areas that are not easy to define accurately:

Massif

Sea

areas with usage names

Rendering

On classical maps the areas will not be rendered. However the general shape should be used to correctly render the name of the structure. Normally its name should follow the general axis of the valley.

Discussion

Please discuss on the talk page --Pshunter 14:26, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Votes

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