All, Thanks for the responses. I will keep those in mind while I fix up my additions over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Best, _AJS On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Peter Childs <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/24 James Ewen <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If the bridge is "permanent", i.e., not likely to be removed by a park >>> maintenance crew or the next heavy rain, and you are mapping a pathway to >>> the street, then I would certainly include the bridge, that is, if the >>> ditch is mapped. If there is nothing mapped for the path to cross, then >>> (again, in my opinion) there is no need to map the bridge. >> >> If a bridge is required to cross the physical barrier, I would show >> the bridge. It indicates to the observer that there must be some type >> of physical obstacle to be crossed. Optimally the ditch would be added >> to the OSM map as well. >> >> I map the location of bridges on the highways where they cross the >> rivers, even though the rivers are not yet mapped. I don't have the >> time and energy, nor data to be able to map the millions of miles of >> rivers that are crossed by the highways I have been able to track. We >> should be importing hydrology data from a government source in the >> near future here in Canada as well, so in the mean time, I am content >> to map the bridge even if it looks like the bridge has no purpose >> currently. >> >> I'd say map what you are interested in mapping to the best of you >> ability, representing what is on the ground as accurately as possible. >> If you can't or don't want to map the ditch, someone else might come >> along later and do it. Map what you see... >> >> James >> VE6SRV >> > > If you can't map the river, but know its name, Put a stub in with its > name on it, at least then we know that "This bridge cross the river X > but we don't know what the river X does" which is better than nothing. > when someone gets round to mapping the rivers they can then join all > the stubs up.... > > Peter. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Alexander J. Stein Cell: (201) 412-9479 Email: [email protected] Skype: alexander.j.stein AIM: elduderino6886 _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
