I agree. I actually admire the detailed landcover areas found in many places in Europe in OSM and I can't see how such a level of detail would be problematic here in the Philippines.
As for the saw-tooth coastlines, I'm actually surprised they still exist to a large degree since we did a mini-project back in 2010 to improve those coastlines: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Coastline_corrections ~Eugene On 2/4/16, Ronny Ager-Wick <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not an authority on this, but I can't see a reason why not. The current > lines are unlikely to be accurate the way you describe them and matches what > I've seen elsewhere in the Philippines. > Ronny. > > On 2016-02-02 18:17, David Groom wrote: >> Hi >> >> Firstly let me introduce myself, I'm based in the UK. I've been involed >> with >> OSM pretty much from the start, (I attended the first ever mapping party), >> was >> responsible for a large part of the original worldwide coastline import, >> spent a lot of time fixing coastline errors, did most of the original >> mapping >> of Baghdad from Bing & Yahoo imagery, and have done of lot of other mappng >> from imagery worldwide, as well as mapping from my own GPX tracks here in >> th >> UK and wherever I vacation. >> >> I have recently started mapping parts of Leyte. Initially focusing on some >> of >> the smaller scale mapping ( tracing builings etc) . >> >> I then noticed that some areas of coastline on the west of the island >> needed >> updating from imagery since it had the typical "saw-tooth" effect >> resulting >> from imports of coastline data. so have been working on that. I'm not >> finished yet! >> >> Anyway, the purpose of my post to the list is to ask about landuse = >> forest >> areas. If you look at the central part of Leyte some large areas have >> been >> mapped and tagged for the forest, but : >> >> (1) these seem to have arbitary boundaries (long strainght lines where the >> areas simply have not been accuarely mapped to any natural feature) >> >> (2) The areas so far mapped with tree cover (either "natural = wood", or >> "landuse = forest" represent a smnall proportion of the actual forest >> cover on >> the island. >> >> My question is, is it OK if as I map other things I extend the tree cover >> areas . This may result in a large part of Leyte "turning green" on the >> map. >> >> Regards >> >> David Groom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
