[Imports] Spanish mountain ranges import.

[Diego Cruz]

Dear all,

In OSM, however, we can find, for example, the Tatra or the Harz mountains
and all the ranges in the Alps, from the Dolomites to Karwendel.

If Karwendel is a social construct, what is it doing in OSM? It is not only
a node, but mapped as a whole mountain area, even covering the town of Hall
in Tirol, that is located on the river valley. I guess that is wrong, but
do I want Karwendel to be removed? Of course not.

Please do not obstruct the mapping of natural elements, especially when
local mappers are so excited about doing it.

Otherwise, please start cleaning OSM of unwanted and unnecessary
information in your local areas first to set the example.

Best regards
Diego Cruz

El dom., 7 feb. 2021 18:42, Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <
imports at openstreetmap.org> escribió:

>
> 7 Feb 2021, 15:25 by matheus.gomes03 at hotmail.com:
>
> Dear all,
>
> It came as a surprise to me this discussion, mainly because, as far as I
> know (I'm not Spanish but I mapped there sometimes), the Spanish data (from
> Instituto Geográfico Nacional) is usually very good, and the local
> community is doing several imports beautifully (I have yet to see a better
> Wiki page than the Spanish buildings import [1]).
>
> Note that complaint is specifically about
> diffuse, basically impossible to verify data.
>
> Noone wants to keep building outline
> data out of OSM, while there are big discussions
> how to map mountain ranges and is is
> something mappable in OSM at all.
>
> I am also highly dubious about mapping
> mountain ranges also manually.
>
>
> I understand the community concerns regarding the data (as all imports
> should receive some special attention), but I think there is some
> overreaction that is not productive. The wiki is reasonably well written,
> and regarding verifiability, what exactly the mappers are expecting? The
> Topo IGN map, per [2], shows initially that the data used to exemplify the
> import looks very good.
>
> And what happens when someone
> wants to move imported node 5km
> toward North?
>
> In case of building it is easy to
> answer "is building XYZ at location X, Y".
>
> Mountain ranges are much fuzzier,
> making me doubt is it something
> fitting OSM at all.
>
>
> Spain is a mountainous country and OSM must reflect that
>
> It does not mean that mountain ranges are
> mappable in OSM
>
> but people don't use OSM because it lacks data, and when you try to import
> very good data, you can't also do it
>
> There are many types of data not
> present in OSM at all, and not
> importable, even if data itself is of
> high quality.
>
> Mountain ranges are borderline, and
> my request is to consider alternatives.
> For example using external data and OSM data together,
> rather than copying this into OSM.
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