[talk-au] Deserts, mapping and sources
Andrew Davidson
theswavu at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 01:48:28 UTC 2018
On 17/01/18 10:49, Warin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OSMand has started rendering deserts.
>
> I note that only the Simpson Desert in OSM so far is Way: Simpson Desert
> (168949121) ... I cannot find the source for this.
>
> It would be nice to map the other deserts that we have too.
I'm not sure that there is much point in mapping deserts. Someone has
already helpfully outlined why:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:natural%3Ddesert
Deserts are a climatic concept:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/map/climate_classifications/images/kpngrp.png
What you should map is what you can see on the ground. So the Simpson
Desert should be natural=sand, which is what you can see in the aerial
imagery.
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