[OSM-newbies] Two Questions

[Al Haraka]

All,

Thanks for the responses.  I will keep those in mind while I fix up my
additions over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Best,
_AJS

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/24 James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If the bridge is "permanent", i.e., not likely to be removed by a park
>>> maintenance crew or the next heavy rain, and you are mapping a pathway to
>>> the street, then I would certainly include the bridge, that is, if the
>>> ditch is mapped. If there is nothing mapped for the path to cross, then
>>> (again, in my opinion) there is no need to map the bridge.
>>
>> If a bridge is required to cross the physical barrier, I would show
>> the bridge. It indicates to the observer that there must be some type
>> of physical obstacle to be crossed. Optimally the ditch would be added
>> to the OSM map as well.
>>
>> I map the location of bridges on the highways where they cross the
>> rivers, even though the rivers are not yet mapped. I don't have the
>> time and energy, nor data to be able to map the millions of miles of
>> rivers that are crossed by the highways I have been able to track. We
>> should be importing hydrology data from a government source in the
>> near future here in Canada as well, so in the mean time, I am content
>> to map the bridge even if it looks like the bridge has no purpose
>> currently.
>>
>> I'd say map what you are interested in mapping to the best of you
>> ability, representing what is on the ground as accurately as possible.
>> If you can't or don't want to map the ditch, someone else might come
>> along later and do it. Map what you see...
>>
>> James
>> VE6SRV
>>
>
> If you can't map the river, but know its name, Put a stub in with its
> name on it, at least then we know that "This bridge cross the river X
> but we don't know what the river X does" which is better than nothing.
> when someone gets round to mapping the rivers they can then join all
> the stubs up....
>
> Peter.
>
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