On 25-Oct-16 01:01 AM, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
I, for one, think that hunting areas don't really belong to OSM. Or at least benefits are outweighed by problems.
OSM was initially aimed at mapping streets. Do not limit the development of OSM in any direction! IF someone wants to give an indication then they should not be restrained but rather encouraged.
Firstly they may or may not be associated with OSM features. In the latter case, there's no guarantee that someone who edits a forest would understand it and not merge it with other forest (Not to mention inconsistency of treating ponds/lakes in forests as either cutting a hole or not). Also, there may or may not be any on-the-ground markings. If there are none, there should be an official database to which one can refer, in which case there's no point in duplicating it in OSM.
The same can be said for National Parks, Forests, local playgrounds, supermarkets ... OSM would be much less usefull without this 'duplicated data'. Placing all this data into one open source data base makes OSM itself much more usefull.
The legal details vary around the world and we have seen that both mapping legal state and implementing very elaborate tagging (here it'd be: who, when, what, how) have not been successful.
The mapping of legal country boundaries (where not in dispute) looks good to me. It is certainly usable by me and therefore usefull = successful.
Not to mention any hunter who needs this data would rather go to official sources and not trust a map that anyone can edit.
"Anyone who needs a map would rather go to an 'official source' and not trust OSM." Yep .. sounds good Michał.
Obviously, we map legal state sometimes (like for routing), but this is mostly pragmatic and secondary to the feature. Here the legal state is a feature in itself.
Could say the same for a National Park... ------------------------ My view is 1) If someone wants to map something, they can map it in OSM. That cannot be disputed. 2) The question then becomes .. What is the best method of mapping it? And that is the question this group was set up to answer. If you disagree with 1) then your not really open source. If you don't want to answer 2) then why are you here? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
