Tagging of peak lists in Great Britain and Ireland

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There is a long tradition of compiling lists of mountain and hill peaks in the Ireland and Great Britain. These are popular targets or hill walkers and climbers and are extremely well-known. There are a number of keys indicating that a given peak is a member of one, or more, of these lists.

The first major list was that of the [Munros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro], compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in the 1890s. Broadly, Munros are peaks in Scotlandover 3000 ft with a 'significant' ascent. Other peaks above 3000 ft with less climb are usually designated as Munro Tops. At the time of writing there are 282 Munros and 226 Munro Tops. There followed another eponymous list of Corbetts, which were more precisely defined as having an elevation between 2500 ft and 3000 ft and a prominence of 500 ft. Graham's cover the next height range down to 2000 ft.

Obvious deficiencies in these lists – inconsistency in Munro criteria, lists only based on Scotland – led to the creation of a number of other lists: Hewitts (for England and Wales), Donalds (metric criteria for Scotland), etc. The final step was to have a prominence-only criterion which led to the amusingly named Marilyns.

The following keys are in use to describe membership of some of these lists:

Most use yes and no values. There are also keys munro_number and munro_top.