On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory <[email protected]>wrote:
> People try to get this sort of information from textual descriptions (and > local knowledge). Then of course it will probably need correcting once it is > open/accessible. > You can try and work it out from standing at a construction fence and > looking at which direction the road takes. You can also try contacting > people for permission to copy their map (if they surveyed/created it or have > full rights to give to you) or to access their land. It all depends how much > work you want to do when sooner or later you will be able to map the trail > in the normal way of going along it. > Ya, your probably right. After all, there is still alot of work todo to map the existing world. :) I'm just getting ahead of myself. That'll be a project for next year :-) Cheers, Sam > > On 14 April 2010 13:06, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> What is the communities policy for mapping 'planned construction'? >> >> Here's the situation, the Capital Region District (Victoria area) has >> already gained the approval of the people to actually build a trail >> section (from Langford to Shawnigan lake). >> All that needs now is some funding and some land ownership agreements. >> >> It goes over existing 'wooded area' and wont interfear with anything else. >> >> My guess would be that 'because the proposal is now in the 'waiting >> for construction' phase, it would be OK to map. (so it needs to gain >> council approval) >> >> But the catch is, is that it needs direct permission from the >> cartographer who drew that map that was on public display. Or the >> person was directly part of the 'scouting mission' to physically hike >> the terrain (with landowner approval) and donated the tracks to >> OpenStreetMap. >> >> Of course, at eithor end, the road/path should not be physically >> connected, and gates & signage drawn on the map where it physically >> exists. >> >> Ideas? >> Cheers, >> Sam >> >> >> -- >> Twitter: @Acrosscanada >> Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ >> http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans >> Skype: samvekemans >> OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org >> @Acrosscanadatrails >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > > -- > Gregory > [email protected] > http://www.livingwithdragons.com >
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