<div dir="ltr"><div>I often map individual trees. This information is useful, for example, to a hiker it says: "at this point in your hike you will come to a relatively open area with a few scattered trees" (useful as a navigational aid, and perhaps for selecting a campsite).</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:36 AM James <<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com">james2432@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I'm for mapping trees, it can have helpful information about trees:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.43369/-75.56387" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.43369/-75.56387</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4958732118#map=19/45.43427/-75.56282" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4958732118#map=19/45.43427/-75.56282</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">and not just the tree location itself</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">just because YOU don't use the data, doesn't mean OTHERS can't</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed., Apr. 28, 2021, 1:25 p.m. Dave F via talk, <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi<br>
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Looks good to me.<br>
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If it's physical & stationary, it can be mapped. How much time
& detail is up to the individual mapper.<br>
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What would be good is if renderers could render the canopy of the
trees branches based on a tag indicating roughly the diameter such
as canopy=8.<br>
<br>
The speed of panning in an editor is annoying. Potlatch has a real
problem with a town where all the houses are mapped as nodes.
Surprisingly if they're mapped as complex polygons it has no problem
zooming around.<br>
<br>
DaveF<br>
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<span style="font-family:sans-serif">I came across this:</span> <br>
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<span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/42.71889/-73.78869" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/42.71889/-73.78869</a></span>
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<span style="font-family:sans-serif">And can't help but think that
this serves no utility to anyone whatsoever, and just takes up
space and slows down map editors.</span> <br>
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<span style="font-family:sans-serif">I hesitate to destroy the
effort of someone who clearly spent a significant amount of time
meticulously mapping each tree, but... at the same, does it
really help anyone to know where each individual tree is in a
park?</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif">Maybe I'm too pessimistic.
What does everyone else think? Is there such a thing as too much
detail? Where do we draw the line?</span> <br>
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