We used to do this for outlining hires imagery (as closed ways not relations), but decided to remove them following the "on the ground" principle. Instead, we moved the data to a separate webmap [0]. Further coordination, listing and other imagery updates are added in the wiki as well [1].
[0] http://forge.codedgraphic.com/osm/imagery_coverage/ [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/hires_imagery On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > If I saw one of these locally I would verify that it corresponds to nothing > on the ground and then delete it. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] >> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:28 PM >> To: Open Street Map mailing list >> Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing coverage relations, in particular 1298962 >> >> I noticed this while looking at the map here: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.001059&lon=34.825519&zoom=18&layers >> =M >> >> The "Hires coverage of Bing imagery in the Near East" label is from the >> name on this relation: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1298962 >> >> Regardless of the "perhaps the map shouldn't render unknown things just >> because of name=blah" issue, I'd argue that metadata such as this really >> doesn't belong in OSM. I've messaged the three previous editors of this >> relation and two haven't objected to it's removal (the other one hasn't >> replied). Can anyone put forward a good reason why it should be kept? >> >> There are, of course, a number of other relations on this page: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Coverage >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
