Talk:Tag:natural=crevasse

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Too temporary to map?

While it would be nice to have a reliable map of dangerous crevasses on glaciers, I believe the position and shape of crevasses change too quickly for them to be usefully mapped in OSM. --Jeisenbe (talk) 12:46, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Glaciers_tags#Crevasse_mapping for previous discussion of this. Crevasses do not in general change faster than other highly dynamic features like tidal flats, sandbars in rivers etc. The locations at which crevasses form on a glacier are usually fairly constant over long times meaning crevasse mapping can be useful even when after some time the individual crevasse locations have changed completely.--Imagico (talk) 15:21, 10 August 2019 (UTC)