'Geological points of interest'

This may be a tall order, but is there a way that any significant mountains or canyons could be named or marked in some way so that they can be found more easily instead of simply by chance/word of mouth? Perhaps there could be a specific way to submit discoveries, so when you stumble upon a fab canyon for racing, for example, you could record it/make it known - to you (FD) and/or the community.

I guess they would need to be of a certain minimum width/length/depth to qualify. If they did qualify it might help your exploration rank too.

'Geological points of interest' could then be found by anyone by:

- Looking at the planet view in the system map (like for surface bases).
- Searching for either in the 'local' area of the galaxy map (say, 50ly).
- In station services, similar to local bounties - 'local hotspots' - with the planet and coordinates.

Naturally it would be a challenge to have a system of marking them that is scalable to the galaxy, but you've managed it with planetary bodies ;) You might also want to hand-name certain ones yourselves, if they would be ideal for in-game races.

This may be going too far, but I thought I'd share my idea.
 
This would be incredibly hard to do. The geography is procedurally generated so it's a complete mystery to even the devs, until they fly there and look at it. You would need a second pass algorithm to look for features and I can't imagine that could be done well without a brain attached to it.
 
My intention was that us Commanders would be the ones looking for features, and submitting them.

Still incredibly difficult to manage, but easier than getting FDs computers to search.
 
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