Hi Gregory,
That was me tweeting about Occupy Vancouver (the perils of having a twitter
handle that's unrelated to my real name). I would like to map the internal
structure of the camps in detail, although I am still uncertain if that much
detail makes sense to include in OSM. But I figured that if people were going
to do some mapping, there's no harm in using Walking Papers as their basemap,
whether or not the maps get traced into OSM in the end. Here are a couple
example maps someone else made that used Google Maps as the basemap, so they
can't go into OSM no matter what we decide about tagging and appropriate levels
of detail: http://yfrog.com/nvmzi5j http://yfrog.com/nx3vnnj
Regarding the tags, isn't civil_disobedience=camp_site extremely specific? I
can't really think of any other forms of civil_disobedience that would be
long-lasting enough to include in OSM (and even the #occupy camps are pushing
the limits of appropriate longevity for OSM). Perhaps a more generic tag that
would also work for the refugee camps, too?
Alan
On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Gregory wrote:
> I would suggest it would be nice to do a mashup with OSM + occupy locations.
> But then it is possibly helpful for the locations to be crowd sourced, so you
> could add it into OSM with some tagging that would not disrupt current
> renderers/programs.
>
> Go with civil_disobedience=camp_site?
> I don't know about the other details('bookshops', tents etc), I'd be less
> inclined to add those in.
>
> http://twitter.com/mappingmashups Was tweeting about mapping Occupy
> Vancouver. But I *think* his aim was to map the detail in the areas they are
> occupying.
> http://twitter.com/#!/mappingmashups/status/133662563169869824
>
> Gregory.
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