Best to have both? Then take a conservative approach - where both say
desert, map it as desert.
However these do not say the names of the deserts and the boundaries
between these deserts - some of them share boundaries.
The present OSM data has a number of deserts mapped as nodes .. so they
If you want to map the desert areas of Australia you don't need a
source. I've got Australian rainfall data on a 5km grid and I could
generate a polygon around the areas that get less than 250mm a year. I'd
be happy to release it under CC0.
If you want a more sophisticated definition of
I agree that it would be useful to map deserts. The boundaries may be inexact
and landcover is quite variable but they are geographic regions that users may
occasionally search for, and they are major features of inland Australia.
However I don't yet know of a source we could use.
On Wed,
On 17-Jan-18 12:48 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
On 17/01/18 10:49, Warin wrote:
Hi,
OSMand has started rendering deserts.
I note that only the Simpson Desert in OSM so far is Way: Simpson
Desert (168949121) ... I cannot find the source for this.
It would be nice to map the other deserts
On 17/01/18 10:49, Warin wrote:
Hi,
OSMand has started rendering deserts.
I note that only the Simpson Desert in OSM so far is Way: Simpson Desert
(168949121) ... I cannot find the source for this.
It would be nice to map the other deserts that we have too.
I'm not sure that there is
Hi,
OSMand has started rendering deserts.
I note that only the Simpson Desert in OSM so far is Way: Simpson Desert
(168949121) ... I cannot find the source for this.
It would be nice to map the other deserts that we have too. A good
source for this would be the 'Interim Biogeographic
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