[Outdoor-natural] Welcome to the list

[Richard Z.]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 12:58:55PM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Richard Z. wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >and welcome. The main topic of this list are discussions related to the
> >mapping (and proposals of mapping) of:
> >*outdoor sports
> >*wilderness and natural features
> 
> For the avoidance of doubt, I should point out that cycling is predominantly
> 
> (a) transport and/or
> (b) recreation
> 
> and not
> (c) sport
> 
> So unless you're mapping the Tour de France route, cycle mapping
> should continue to be discussed in the places it's always been
> discussed, as it's unreasonable for something that has been (and
> continues to be) so crucial to OSM mappers and users to be shunted
> off to a little list like this one.

mountain bike mapping was one intended subjects of this list as well,
if for no other reasons becuase many outdoor contributions are from 
mountain bikers.

As of recreation cycling, it depends. If it is outside urban areas and
away from roadside bike routes it touch many topics which are interesting 
for this list.

So to avoid further doubts, swimming is not off topic even if it is
swimming for the purpose of leisure or transport.

Richard