Steve,
Putting another perspective on this, one of my other hobbies is
Scouting, where I try to teach young people about maps & navigation. In
this country there is a tendency to assume that any navigation must
involve OS maps, & I try to widen their knowledge & get them to question
the accuracy of anything they are using for navigation. I've put in
quite a few boundaries & barriers, to OSM, and I produce paper maps for
my Scouts to navigate by, before I introduce them to compasses, GPS's &
anything else that aids navigation.
As a mapper, I do find that it is getting more & more difficult to alter
or add to data because we've added so much detail. I would like someone
(sorry, don't have any skills in the software department) to produce
something that aids in editing densely compacted data - certainly I've
made my share of mistakes in the past & then spent twice as long trying
to correct them.
I don't know about anyone else, but every so often I need a break from
walking residential streets collating address details, and a walk in the
countryside works for me.
Regards
Nick (Tallguy)
On 02/01/13 15:50, Steven Horner wrote:
I guess it depends on your uses for OSM, I come from a walking
backgroundwith GIS use in my day job, I have completed Mountain Leader
Training and I am interested in the possibilities of replacing
Explorer maps (one day) with OSM. For this to happen boundaries would
be useful although not essential and their would be lot of other
hurdles like Grids but that's a different topic.
I set this discussion away and expected different view points for and
against. My take on all this is if you are happy to go out and map
them, then do so. If someone else isn't interested in doing that then
that's no problem and if a user doesn't want that information shown on
map it could be removed from their rendering in the same way I wish it
was available at lower zoom levels.
OSM is different things to different people and that is part of the
beauty of it, in my mind the more detail the better the ability to
view it our own ways is available although I wish their was a way to
turn some things on and off more easily from Openstreetmap.org without
rendering my own version.
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dave F. <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 31/12/2012 21:17, Steven Horner wrote:
Personally I would love to see fields (landuse) and the
walls/fences that make this up marked on OSM ...
I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit of a party pooper.
Whilst having all the boundary data in OSM would be nice, I'd
hardly call it essential. I do a lot of rural walking & always
record & map any barriers that are relevant to the path I'm on,
but, personally, I consider mapping all hedges etc. a waste of
time. Why bother if no one is ever going to use that information
by walking there?
I consider farmland as the base layer & therefore rarely map it as
fields.
Cheers
Dave F.
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