I think locals will know when a village has no mobile phone coverage at all and I think it's suitable to be mapped as long as it's made sufficiently clear that it's not the sort of thing you map whilst just passing through.
Incidentally, There are tags in OSM for measuring traffic on roads. On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, 09:12 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging, < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Aug 7, 2023, 02:58 by miketh...@gmail.com: > > > > On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 6:39 PM Evan Carroll <m...@evancarroll.com> wrote: > > > > While I don't disagree, that's not an argument for OSM. OSM's job isn't to > mitigate real world safety issues caused by technology. It's to map > generally useful geographically verifiable things. > > I don't understand how cell coverage isn't verifiable - visit the site > (e.g. campground) in question, pull out your phone, note how many bars, try > to make a call, send a text, use some data (perhaps run a speed test). Yes, > it is only good for your carrier, but the carrier should be recorded. Yes, > there could be network congestion, or a tower could be out, but we map > roads, and they can be congested, or closed due to accidents, flooding, > landslides, construction, etc. In some way, this is getting back to our > roots, actually getting out and surveying, rather than just relying on > satellite/aerial imagery. > > Mapping congestion of roads is also out of scope for OSM. > > And cell phone reception varies wildly based on weather, time of year, > operational > internals of operator, load on operator... > > What seems potentially mappable is a place where people go (in area of > poor or missing > coverage) to use phones as connection is better or existing at all there. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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