I don't agree that we don't make progress, but we have different agendas. I put a proposal how to solve this in the original mailing list.
If I am in a country with abundant campsite (France) I start looking for a campsite one hour before I want to stop and I base my choice on location and facilities. I'have a hardcopy book with all 10,000 campsites in France to choose from. If it is in OSM OsmAnd helps me to navigate to it easily. If I am in a country with few campsites (Oman, Tanzania) I plan in the morning where I want to be in the evening with fallback options if something goes wrong on the way. Questions I'll ask: (1) any "normal" campsites available, (2) if no, any "opportunistic campsites" (hotels offering camping) available, (3) if no, any non-designates sites (police station, public park) available. Depending on the location I may skip all of this and go for wild camping at a quiet, beautiful place instead. I have no internet, so my information sources are: (1) previously downloaded OSM data (OsmAnd, Overpass), (2) extracts of blogs and camping listings from other overlanders (partly in text summarized per country, partly lists converted to gpx that I can show on the map), (3) travel guides (Lonely Planet etc.) On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:59 AM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/03/2015 2:54 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > I might use OSM to identify camping sites nearby, but would never stop > > there. > > The next step is a web search. Thus the website= link is the most > > important > > tag, after camp_site. > > > > Assumes web access.. as most of Australia has no cell phone access? > Satellite phone! > Sorry my budget does not stretch to running a web search through a > satellite phone for info on a camp site.. > > Think you'll find a website search is ok for highly populated countries > that have lots of high capacity cell phone coverage. Might cover most of > the users most of the time? > > -------------- > Me? I look for a camp site somewhere ahead after lunch time. Usually > basic will do me for an overnight. For more than one night .. cloths > washing would be good. > If there is nothing on the map .. I'll look for a wild camp - small back > road away from houses (note to self - mark out houses on OSM along the > ways I travel so I can see them on the map!). I'll usually start looking > for wild sites after say 15:30. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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