Il giorno 13/set/2013, alle ore 05:47, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com ha
scritto:
If everyone locally calls it a desert... then what? Print out pages from
wikipedia and start arguing :-)?
chances are high that it really will rain very few in this case, although there
might be
Il giorno 13/set/2013, alle ore 04:49, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com ha
scritto:
I can think of a number of areas in the US west that would count as mountains
by that definition if approached from one direction but not the other.
Mogollon Rim for one:
On Friday 13 September 2013, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
If everyone locally calls it a desert... then what? Print out pages
from wikipedia and start arguing :-)?
This is exactly what i was talking about earlier: Just because there are
areas which undisputedly qualify as deserts does not mean this
On Sep 13, 2013, at 12:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Il giorno 13/set/2013, alle ore 04:49, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com ha
scritto:
I can think of a number of areas in the US west that would count as
mountains by that definition if approached from one direction but not the
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
Is there an equivalent body of thought into how to apply defaults to huge
geographic areas?
Two things here.
There is already a proposal to put defaults on multipolygons:
What's a mountain what's a desert? Depends where you are. A typical color
landform map sets defined elevation boundaries for each color on the map.
But human practice is that the boundaries are relative. What's a mountain
in the East would be a foothill in the Sierra.
Perhaps what the OSM
2013/9/12 Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
What's a mountain what's a desert? Depends where you are.
well, wikipedia says: Deserts generally receive less than 250 millimetres
(10 in) of rain (precipitation) each
year.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert#cite_note-EG-1
Semideserts
Sounds like a definition set by politicians. :)
I can think of a number of areas in the US west that would count as mountains
by that definition if approached from one direction but not the other. Mogollon
Rim for one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Rim
-Tod
On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:49
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
well, wikipedia says: Deserts generally receive less than 250 millimetres
(10 in) of rain (precipitation) each
year.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert#cite_note-EG-1
Semideserts
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
2013/9/11 Christoph Hormann chris_horm...@gmx.de
there is simply no way with the current OSM data model to properly map
deserts.
+1, generally we are not well prepared to map huge geographic areas or
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