Hi all,
I noticed that in Wales, large parts of the Snowdonia National Park have
been covered with natural=heath, much of which seems blatantly
incorrect. Although I am from the Netherlands, having studied for half a
year in Bangor in 1993, I know the area around Snowdon mountain and
Llanberis quite well, as I made several hikes there. As you all know,
there is much more variation in the natural landscape there, for which a
single swath of heath seems wholly inappropriate as a representation of
the landscape. Even along the outer borders, the features often seem
totally disconnected with reality looking at Bing, there is often no
real visible difference in the landscape, or clearly other types of
landscapes and natural features, all of this also strongly suggesting a
possible import of some small scale, coarse landscape map.
Lastly, the lack of proper multipolygon creation, means that other types
of renderers and styles than Carto, and GIS's like QGIS and ArcGIS, that
do not stack features based on size but need multipolygons to deal with
polygon-within-polygon problems, have many older detailed features
covered up by these new ones, as the original data may be hidden beneath
the newly added ones.
I noticed the particular user who initially created these features is
already under scrutiny of the British community, based on the profile
page and history of the objects, but what are the plans of the community
with these features? Looking at the current data, I would really suggest
a revert of the changesets, but considering some of these features seem
to have been left for a couple of months already, are there any other
ideas in the UK community?
P.S. I did notice the other discussion started by user "sk53.osm" about
these problems caused by this user and natural=heath:
http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/natural-heath-td5888994.html
but that discussion seems to have veered of course into a general
discussion of quality control tools, and didn't really answer the
question of what the community intends to do with all this disputable
data, despite a small suggestion by Andy to possibly keep some of the
data as maybe already corrected by other users.
Marco
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