On Thursday 16 April 2015, olvagor wrote: > > If you decide to remove the explosion sites from OSM, please consider > this: > > 1) There were some explosions (under water, space, atmospheric, ...?) > which left no trace on earth. Just delete them. (But maybe some of > these also left traces - take a look at Bikini atoll). > > 2) Also delete all that technical data. Things to keep for 4) and 5): > names and dates > > 3) Most explosions happend on or beneath ground [1]. There is (and > for the next 10.000 years will be) a crater/shaft/radioactive glas or > simply radiation, which can be measured and therefore mapped. And if > you have the right equipment, you can analyse the isotopes and stuff > and find out, which device was detonated at that site. I agree, this > is different from reading the name from a sign, but there IS > something > visible/traceable left.
I think this is a valid argument - there are many other things in the OSM database just vaguely mapped as a node where no one has yet verified an observable feature exists but reason says there probably is so adding name, type of object and rough location are appropriate to help future mappers of the area who might be unsuspecting to identify what they see. For example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/895894253 can help mappers to more accurately identify structures like this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/138949022 which is the entrance to an explosion tunnel for an underground nuclear test there (if this entrance belongs to exactly this explosion is not absolutely clear since the coordinates might not be too accurate and there are other tunnels nearby). Criteria to me would be: - from an objective standpoint it is likely that observable, localizable and permanent and therefore mappable things related to this feature exit - the feature and its attributes contain useful data for future mapping of these things I think this more or less concurs with your suggestion, i.e. remove (1) and (2), keep (4) and (5) and use basic reasoning for (3). As far as radiation is concerned - most above-ground nuclear tests have not left sufficiently strong localizable radiation to qualify as mappable in OSM, for most underground explosion there is no or very little radiation detectable at the surface. So radiation is not really a very useful criterion. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
