because it is a tangible item in the real world, it should be mapped? OpenStreetMap is not just about roads and navigation, it's an Open GIS representation of the world around us. People may be using that information, even if you are not. While we are at it why not just nuke lakes and rivers as they serve no purpose right?
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wrote: > I'm "glad" to see someone else w/ this issue. It's glancingly related to > the canvec import issue, since the land use polygons are a source of some > of the issues the reverter is complaining about (malformed multipolygons / > boundary overlaps). > > In my own work in my old home town of Prince George, I've constantly > wanted to just plain delete the "urban area" land use polygon (which > doesn't seem to correspond in any way to the actual urban area of the > present) and the forest polygons (which have the same problem). > > Unlike buildings and roads and water, land use is pretty sloppy: where > does the "urban area" end? Is this a "forest" or just a bunch of trees? > Since anyone making a real multi-scale map will fine some other source of > land-use (like classified landsat) and since people trying to map at > high-res are finding the forests add little value and much impedance, why > don't we ... burn down all the forests (and the urban areas too)? > > P > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Loïc Haméon <hame...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On a final note, though, I certainly would approve of any effort to >> reduce the size of the upload chunks and the assorted polygons. For new >> mappers like me, those create daunting challenges when trying to make >> incremental improvements to an area. Shortly after joining the OSM >> community I was back in my home town of Saint-Félicien, in a fairly remote >> region that hasn't had tons of local mapping done. Some of the inhabited >> areas I aimed to improve were covered by Canvec forest multipolygons, and I >> ended up giving up on them until I could get some more experience as I >> absolutely did not understand what the hell was going on.... >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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