Hi, about 4 years ago, about 2400 nuclear explosion sites were imported into OSM from http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nuclear-explosion.jsp.
Those are *not* installations that regularly conduct nuclear explosions (in case you wondered, think again), but instead event data about one specific nuclear explosion that happened at a location in the past. Examples: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/879707991 http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/879714919 As you can see, these nodes contain a ton of metadata about the particular explosion, e.g. the exact time, height, type of warhead, military code names, yield of the explosion, and so on. Nothing of this is verifiable on-site, or likely to be amended by other mappers, and while this information is very interesting, it is readily available from other sources. Most of all, it is (in my opinion) not geodata but "event data" - important and potentially geo-changing events perhaps, but still, event data. I don't think this information should be in OSM, and I propose to remove all 2405 objects with military=nuclear_explosion_site from OSM. There's also about 400 site=nuclear_explosion_site relations that occasionally have a member describing the crater causes by the explosion. I do not propose doing anything with them at this time. I will make the importer aware of this discussion in case he is interested in participating. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
