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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Apr 17, 2019, 11:29 AM by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">I think we all should stop seeking out one large-scale feature type<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">after the other that is "missing" from OSM and think about how to best<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">add them. In my view, the fact that these are underrepresented in OSM is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not an opportunity to "improve" OSM but a sign that OSM isn't the right<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">place for that kind of data.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Instead, let us find a way of recording such imprecise information<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">outside of OSM's data model, and make it easy to access it e.g. when<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">rendering maps.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Especially as such features are subjective, with multiple competing definitions<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and local survey is not adding anything useful.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For example splitting Earth's oceanic waters into oceans is subjective, <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mapping one selected division or all of them is not useful in OpenStreetMap<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">See<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_ocean_map.gif">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_ocean_map.gif</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">for multiple splits of oceans, see<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">is similar, the same happens with mountain ranges and other <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">similar large-scale features.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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