<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">> > What exactly are you referring to? All I can see there is Black Rock<br>> > City, aka the site of Burning Man.<br>> <br>> My first impression when clicking the link in Jonathan's mail was that<br>> somebody was making a map for their computer game using JOSM and<br>> accidentally uploaded it, heh.<br><br>Excellent. Not too far from the truth. Except you have to drive 8 hours to get to the game, it lasts a week, and everyone wins.<br><br>Black Rock City is temporary, one week per year. Each year the city moves to minimize impact on the desert. Next year we'll make a new map.<br><br>It does raise the question of how to
preserve web mapping history. Burning Man is an extreme example of a dynamic world in flux. Burning Man Flickr photos from 2008 only make sense against the 2008 map.<br><br>-Mikel<br></div></div></div></body></html>