[Imports] Florida Landuse Import

[Kevin Kenny]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:18 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <
imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Feb 28, 2022, 08:14 by grussausbw at gmx.de:
>
> "So 4 days after most people interested in imports ever heard about it you
> are ready to go?"
> Who checks his mails only every 4 days? Don't people check them out every
> day?
>
> Many people who are not terminally online, especially for mails of lower
> priority.
>
> I expect that there are many people active primarily on weekends and
> treating
> it as a low intensity hobby.
>
> Many people may have 4 busy days at work (or entire week) especially
> in the current situation.
>

Even mapping can put people offline.  You'll usually get a prompt response
from me if I'm in town, but sometimes I'm in the field.

When I was gathering data for https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4286650
I had essentially zero cell phone coverage for the middle 100 km, between
Long Lake (don't recall whether I had a brief burst of signal at Lake
Durant) and Piseco. That meant that I was incommunicado for six days. (I'm
not a fast hiker, particularly when I'm also mapping).

Going that far between resupply points is, uhm, interesting. At Piseco,
my pack weighed half what it did in Long Lake, because I'd eaten the other
half. Keeping GPS running for six days without the opportunity to hook up
with the electrical grid is also an interesting exercise. Lake Placid to
Long Lake was similar, but shorter ("only" 60-odd km). I discovered
significant errors in the published guidebook and maps while on the
journey.

There are no cell towers in the wilderness.

I'm willing to spend neither the money nor the mass for a satellite phone.
I carry a Personal Locator Beacon (yes, it's an actual PLB and yes, it's
licensed) and I begrudge the weight of even that.


-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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