On 09/01/2017 11:53, SK53 wrote:
Somehow I have been oblivious to the fact that large numbers of polygons tagged natural=heath have been added over the past few months to OSM.
I think what's happening here is one mapper "colouring in" without any particular knowledge of the area. Whilst adding the results of some mapping in South Wals I came across a number of heath landuse polygons south of Talybont that bore almost no resemblance to on-the-ground features - it didn't align with existing walls, or woodland, or anything to better than 100m in cases. They've been contacted a couple of times about it, and haven't replied, so with a DWG hat on I sent them http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1104 which was intended to improve mapping quality and responsiveness. The former has happened (a bit); the latter not so much.
If all the places that were originally added as natural=heath by this mapper were removed I don't think we'd have a significantly worse map, and it'd be easier to map these features properly.
There will be occasions where people have fixed up significant portions of this mappers work, and it'd be great to keep that (there's a massive "heath" http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/456253921 between Merthyr and Crickhowell that I've tidied the Talybont side of - but unfortunately that's only 20% of this one object - I'd be surprised if it is Heath at http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/456253921#map=17/51.76532/-3.33642&layers=H for example), but maybe the solution there is to slice away the parts with nodes added by this mapper from the parts with nodes added by others?
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