Thank you, Warin, thank you Mike, thank you Zeke: With Warin's "clarifications," I think we move closer to something approaching a reasonable way to say this. I would correct "renders" to "renderers," and perhaps change it to "OSM's database and renderers...", but aside from that, +1.
> On Dec 11, 2022, at 12:17 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 6/12/22 06:39, Mike Thompson wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:22 AM Minh Nguyen via talk >> <talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote: >> Vào lúc 09:55 2022-12-05, Zeke Farwell đã viết: >> > That is a good summary, though "Once the OSM available satellite imagery >> > does not show the feature" 1) There are other sources that an armchair >> > mapper can use other than imagery, such as the Strava Global Heatmap, the >> > USGS 3 DEP data (in the US), and GPX data that has been uploaded to the >> > OSM server. >> 2) The term "satellite imagery" also excludes street level imagery, such as >> Mapillary >> 3) Technically some of the imagery we refer to as "satellite" is really >> "aerial." >> >> "Once the feature truly no longer exists and is no longer evident in any of >> the available remote sources commonly used to edit OSM, including overhead >> imagery (satellite/aerial/drone), street level imagery (e.g. Mapillary), GPS >> traces/heatmaps (e.g. Strava), and elevation data (e.g. USGS 3DEP) the >> feature can be deleted" >> >> > > I have abbreviated the above to be; > "The following tags function is to reduce the possibility of a mapper > remapping the feature from existing available sources used to edit OSM, e.g. > satellite or aerial imagery, that shows the old state of the feature. Once > the OSM available sources do not show the feature, the feature can safely be > removed from OSM. Renders cannot rely on OSM preserving physically vanished > history. " > > I don't want to use too many words .. so as not to obscure the basic > intention. Listing all the possible sources is not necessary... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
