Re: [OSM-talk] Forests are mappable - was: Re: OTG rule, borders & mountains existing | Re: Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-12 Thread Warin
The problem? Large areas of blank map that, when viewed zoomed out, look to be tree covered areas. Result: Initial mappers tag the large areas as tree covered, ignoring details such as lakes, tree cuttings etc. Some time later details of lakes, tree cuts are added. this may be some years

Re: [OSM-talk] Forests are mappable - was: Re: OTG rule, borders & mountains existing | Re: Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-12 Thread Pierre BĂ©land via talk
Hi Mateusz The link below shows north of Canada areas, where the wood landcover correspond in general to Canvec imports. The blank areas are mostly not mapped yet except some lakes and infrastructures.https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/55.740/-79.804 But for Labrador, the contributors have

Re: [OSM-talk] Forests are mappable - was: Re: OTG rule, borders & mountains existing | Re: Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-12 Thread Yves
While I second Mateusz, the obvious solution for data users who may want to get rid of them in OSM is to filter them out. Yves ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Forests are mappable - was: Re: OTG rule, borders & mountains existing | Re: Crimea situation - on the ground

2020-02-12 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via talk
Feb 12, 2020, 01:54 by pierz...@yahoo.fr: > > > > pierz...@yahoo.fr > > > If we could keep the wood landcover outside of OSM, it would greatly > > > simplify mapping of such areas and dramatically reduce the Mulipolygons > > > problems where huge multipolygons are created with inner for lakes