On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Alan Mintz <[email protected]> wrote: > That aside, before entering what appears to be a private street, even if > not correctly posted according to law, I ask myself what value will be > derived from it, and for whom I am mapping. In the present case, IMO, > putting the pool of a single-family residence on the map is a waste of my > time, OSM resources to store and render the feature, and map clutter for > the ultimate consumer, for almost no benefit (other than maybe for someone > who wants to count pool density). When it's a feature shared by hundreds of > people, and many potential residents, it seems more worthwhile (though not > extremely).
The use case I usually think of is someone printing a map of the individual facility: a university, a school, a hospital, a resort, whatever. A school might be "private", but it's still worth being able to print maps for. Could you extend that to a an apartment block with a pool inside? It's a real stretch. The concept of "private" is really a scale. At one extreme might be a house in a gated community, and at the other, a shopping mall, which is technically "private", but virtually anyone is allowed in. Somewhere in the middle are schools and universities, office blocks and so forth. Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
