Hi, On 04.01.22 12:29, Warin wrote: > I have not as yet looked at hospitals, nor post offices... and I think both > of them are more useful to the map than Rural Fire Brigades.
Within the envelope of stuff that is admissible to OSM, usefulness is a very subjective concept. If you are in the fire brigades, then maybe mapping a single fire hydrant is more useful to you than all of the post offices combined. It is commendable that you let your mapping be guided by trying to think about the "general usefulness for others", however this is not a necessary (nor a frequent!) trait in OSM contributors. Mapping what interests you is totally ok - and is often also the way to ensure that what is mapped is mapped well, because it is mapped by people who understand something about it! Of course this "let everyone map what they want" rule has its limits where one mapper's work starts to make life difficult for other mappers. For me, this point often comes when one mapper goes over board in creating giant relations that will slow down and confuse others (think of a newbie receiving a popup informing him that he has just edited the 5000-member relation "Outback NSW" and whether that was on purpose or so...). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
