Hi Ian, I have been maintaining the national seashore boundary on cape code using the new MassGIS parcel layer. The national seashore boundary in OSM is now more accurate than the official park boundary available from the NPS. It is simply incorrect to say nobody is maintaining these boundaries because they can't be improved after they have been imported to OSM.
I don't see how this is any different than the national park boundaries. We have established tags: boundary=protected_area with 14,000 instances, and boundary=national_park with 8,000 instances. We render items with way less instances than these two tags. Seems to me like this is already a settled issue. Dan, if you wan to import those ~10 shapes, follow the import process. Make a wiki project page, talk to the people that use OSM for marine stuff to make sure the tags are correct, simplify, JOSM validate, post OSM files for review before you upload, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct Also, you might want to look at some stuff I have written about imports. https://github.com/jremillard/osm-import-toolkit Jason. On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jason Remillard >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> I'm in favor of adding marine boundaries. While we can't see them, with >> gps we can be aware of them. I know a handful of sailors in the Puget Sound >> area that could benefit from having this data. It's also worthwhile to have >> these boundaries in OSM since these are restricted waters. > > > These are all great reasons to link to these boundary datasets and maybe > have mkgmap include them when building .img files. They still don't belong > in OSM. > > We've had this thread several times before. Other than the NPS folks helping > maintain some of their borders I don't see anyone else maintaining > boundaries or borders and they're just sitting around slowly getting deleted > or more-broken. _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
