A very interesting comment, considering the lengths we seem to go to to avoid importing Open Data from official sources.
Cheerio John On 24 Oct 2016 7:35 pm, "Pine W" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a comment that I'd be wary of "No hunting", "Hunting allowed", or > "Private property", or other signs on the ground that can actually be > placed by anyone, whether or not they are legal. A problem that I've > encountered more than once is a private property owner putting out what > appeared to me to be an illegal sign, like putting a home-made speed limit > sign on the small street that goes by their house. A similar problem that > I've heard about is business owners putting out "No parking", "Customer > parking only", "Private beach", and similar signs which were made to look > official but actually were not approved by any government agency. So > signage that you see in public is not always trustworthy, and I would be > cautious about relying on it. Relying on official databases seems to me to > be preferable to relying on signage. > > Pine > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> sent from a phone >> >> > Il giorno 24 ott 2016, alle ore 20:22, yvecai <[email protected]> ha >> scritto: >> > >> > Michal, >> > You're half right IMO. I don't see such problems if >> > 1) tagging is made by hunters >> > 2) mapping is made by hunters >> >> >> I'm not a hunter, but I have encountered a lot of "hunting forbidden" >> signs in different places, sometimes every few meters apparently delimiting >> an area. While I didn't map them at the time, I guess I could have done it >> without having deeper insights into the hunting business, simply by looking >> where the signs were. >> >> What you ask for is desirable, but I would not make it a requirement. In >> any field you can provide better mapping if you know more about the topic, >> but this hasn't led us to only ask specialists for their contribution. >> >> >> cheers, >> Martin >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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