On May 31, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+...@cakebox.net> wrote:
> > On 31. mai 2010, at 21.13, Ian Dees wrote: >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gustav Foseid <gust...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> How do, on the ground, you verify the name of a peak? >> >> You look at the sign. Talk to the hikers you passed on the way up >> with your GPS. >> >>> How do you, on the ground, verify a national park or nature reserve? >> >> It sounds like you're talking about the border of the park or >> reserve. As has been said before, borders probably don't belong in >> OSM. The name of a park is probably verifiable though. >> >>> All of these things might be properly marked with signs where you >>> are, but they certainly are not everywhere. >> >> If they are not marked, how do the locals know what and where they >> are? > > Please, take a vacation outside densely populated areas. Northern > Norway is quite nice: http://osm.org/go/1KyNf-- > > Names are often passed by word of mouth, or learned from a map. You / > might/ find some signposted peaks, but I doubt it. > > If we are supposed to leave out every name that isn't signposted we > might as well just give up on creating anything like a nice hiking > map for Norway right away. And if we aren't doing anything but roads > we might as well use Google maps, they are quite good at that. I don't think anyone has suggested that we leave out things I'd they aren't signposted. The "on the ground rule" is really for solving disputes and as a general guideline, not as a "you should never ever map this" statement. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
