Wouldn't this be like a national park boundaries, which we have imported and do maintain?
On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Ian Dees wrote: > Simply because there's other old and rotting data (county borders, Census > "places" boundaries, national park boundaries, etc.) in OSM doesn't mean > that we should add new data that will become old and rot. > > Again, if you're interested in showing these boundaries on your company's > website (http://blueseed.co/faq/#map), I'm happy to help show how that > can happen. The boundaries will be more accurate and up to date (since > they're coming from a primary source) and they won't pollute the OSM > dataset. > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Dan Dascalescu (Blueseed) < > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Ian, I'm an OSM volunteer (http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?dandv) and I've >> submitted updates since 2008 based on my own observations on the ground. I >> fully support and understand the mission of OSM. >> >> Imaginary boundaries, unfortunately, can by definition not be confirmed >> on the ground. Yet their utility is also quite clear. OSM features county >> lines and many other administrative boundaries that have no correspondence >> on the ground, and whose source is almost always external and the sole >> authority over the boundary. >> >> In the particular case of water boundaries, I case see several actual use >> cases: >> 1. Marine sanctuaries often don't allow personal watercraft. An OSM user >> could use the map to stay outside of the boundaries. >> 2. Zero-discharge areas don't allow activities one would ordinarily >> consider harmless, such as washing one's sailboat. An OpenSeaMap user could >> sail outside of the boundary in that case. >> 3. The display of the NOAA Sanctuaries boundaries on OpenSeaMap (at >> least, if not also on OpenStreetMaps) can help educate the public on the >> extent of protected ocean areas. In the particular area we're interested >> in, nature reserves are already marked on land - >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/37.7637/-122.5903 >> >> Based on these reasons, I think it would be useful to import the NOAA >> Marine Sanctuaries data into OSM. >> >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Ian Dees >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> >> > wrote: >> >>> Dan, OpenStreetMap's strength is that volunteers can verify the data by >>> observing it on the ground. Boundaries imported from external sources, >>> especially those in the water, are essentially "dead data" that cannot be >>> improved upon unless the external data source changes the data. That sort >>> of data isn't very useful to OSM and it's not my opinion that it shouldn't >>> be in OSM. >>> >> >
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