[Tagging] Mapping of VLF antenna lines

stevea steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Wed Jun 15 22:26:51 UTC 2022


After over a decade of OSM mapping, I have spotted a trend (at least within myself):  wanting to only "whisper" (suggest) maybe a tag, maybe less (as I cautiously do/tag something for the first time in a shared map), I entered a node or a way with simply a note=* tag.  Not even anything "structural" except "there is a way here, I don't know exactly how to enter it."

THEN, I see a mild tagging tangle with a big VLF array and land on "not exactly that, but what about here? as it's like that...").  That turns into the sort of good dialog that happens in this map (especially when spot-on or not-very-tangentially-faraway) even over many years.  From a whisper in our map data, to this list upon a question of what we might do (how we might tag).

And "out of the woodwork" come our members, our Contributors, our volunteer spirit to, what simply is, to speak up (together).

That's pretty awesome, OSM.  I like it when we plant a whisper in our shared map and it taps us on the shoulder a decade later and people talk, across oceans, continents, dialects.  Our tagging gets smarter and better.



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