The satellite imagery is not correct since the city moves locations each year, as described by the golden spike info.
I'm totally onboard with OpenStreetMap being for things that are on the ground. The city is being built now and the streets are being laid out. My question is more about whether generated streets are a good enough source for adding to OpenStreetMap since a survey is not possible. On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > (apologies if this has already been mentioned but) perhaps this is > something that makes sense for OpenHistoricalMap? > > Ask a help question along the lines of "how do I add time-dependant data > to OHM", perhaps clarifying that the ways for previous years are in OSM but > are deleted, and I'm sure someone will pop up and explain how. > > Cheers, > Andy > > > Original Message > From: Frederik Ramm > Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015 10:46 > To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] BurningMan 2015 > > Hi, > > On 07/29/2015 07:07 PM, David Chiles wrote: > > In the past Black Rock City was included in OpenStreetMap. Is the > > generated layout something that could be added? > > OpenStreetMap focuses on things that are on the ground, not things that > were or will be on the ground. > > There are some exception to this, for example there are tags to map > things that are "planned" but don't yet exist; this is not encouraged > for widespread use but might be applicable to Burning Man. > > For maximum flexibility independent of OSM's old-fashioned adherence to > physical realities, I'd suggest to set up your own instance of an OSM > server together with editor(s) and rendering tool chain, which would > enable you and anyone interested to make the most detailed Burning Man > map ever, and even retain the full data base from every year, offer > side-by-side rendering and whatnot. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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