Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Mapping of farmland
I don’t have an issue with it at all! The original poster asked why the sudden interest in mapping farmland. In which I was curious about finding out as well. We have now established the reason. I asked about the general feeling within the Irish OSM community (people subscribed to this list) on giving field's a name. It does not bother me either way. We are getting field boundary data and those users are getting experience mapping, therefore can only be a good thing. I do however support the use of another tag (as suggested by Tom) to record the names, but that's just personal feeling on the matter, I wont be losing any sleep over it! On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:52:34 -, Ken Guest kgu...@php.net wrote: I've added one or two names to fields myself and I don't see what the issue is that our chap in Killyfoyle has with field names being added. There are those of us that add reference numbers of streetlamps and post boxes to OSM, this isn't much different and with the general attitude of tag everything, we'll migrate it if a more specific repository for this info comes along this is surely not an issue. Ken ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Mapping of farmland
Fair enough. I must've misinterpreted Does this data really belong in OSM? Fair enough the fields but the names? :) Ken On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Webmaster webmas...@killyfole.org.ukwrote: I don’t have an issue with it at all! The original poster asked why the sudden interest in mapping farmland. In which I was curious about finding out as well. We have now established the reason. I asked about the general feeling within the Irish OSM community (people subscribed to this list) on giving field's a name. It does not bother me either way. We are getting field boundary data and those users are getting experience mapping, therefore can only be a good thing. I do however support the use of another tag (as suggested by Tom) to record the names, but that's just personal feeling on the matter, I wont be losing any sleep over it! On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:52:34 -, Ken Guest kgu...@php.net wrote: I've added one or two names to fields myself and I don't see what the issue is that our chap in Killyfoyle has with field names being added. There are those of us that add reference numbers of streetlamps and post boxes to OSM, this isn't much different and with the general attitude of tag everything, we'll migrate it if a more specific repository for this info comes along this is surely not an issue. Ken ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie -- http://blogs.linux.ie/kenguest/ ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Mapping of farmland
On 25/11/2013, Webmaster webmas...@killyfole.org.uk wrote: My question is really about what should I do with this information (for example someone opens a Note). I have no way of verifying if it is correct or totally made up. What if the name is offensive or has an alternative meaning in say another language? How do we deal with this information? For example, there is currently an open note ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=52257 ), I don't know what to do with this, and have just been ignoring it, in hope someone else picks it up. In a case like this, ask for clarifications. If the note still doesn't make sense after a while, it's better to close it. Notes that come from anonymous user but need à survey are pretty useless. How far do we go? Currently, I map features if more than one family in the area used the same name or if it has historic value. However, if its only used by a few people of the same family i.e. (top field, side field, Marys field, Paddys field) I do question if these belong in OSM? I can see the important of say “Mill Field” if it was the site of an old mill or something similar. Do you understand what Im asking? IMHO, if a feature has a name that is only relevant to my family, it doesn't belong in osm (which tag is used doesn't really matter). I might map my bike shed and winter garden, but I wont tag a name. The same way that I dont tag my favorite cafe even if that's how I always refer to it. What is tricky with those farm field names is that we dont know wether they are relevant beyond the familly. Some certainly look like they aren't, others might well be. But it's important to give the mapper the benefit of the doubt. They know the area better; they might not know the osm dos and dont as well. If after checking with the contributors it appears that the names are valid, perhaps loc_name would be a better key than name ? ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
