[talk-au] Aboriginal art sites

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 03:18:19 UTC 2019


Thanks everybody!

Now, how?

"Australian guidelines"?

Thanks

Graeme


On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 10:08, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree.
>
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 10:59, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This should be documented clearly. Whilst there is a lot of well known
>> art work, there are a significant number of sacred areas that should not be
>> mapped or identified due to the cultural significance. We only need one
>> person transgressing due to OSM to cause offence. I have just worked with
>> the local owners during an emergency and it is amazing the amount of
>> artifacts that were identified that could disappear if mapped accurately by
>> trophy hunters.
>>
>> Ewen
>>
>> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 10:38, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 08:51, Gavin Scott <gavincscott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The issue about the sacred-ness -it is not the job of OSM to make this
>>>> call. If you think an item is too private to map (perhaps such as a farmers
>>>> internal road network) then don't map it. Tthis is the mappers call.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There has been discussion here previously about mapping ceremonial
>>> trails, & the consensus was that it should only be done with the agreement
>>> & approval of the local Elders, so the same principle should apply to these
>>> sites.
>>>
>>> Should that be documented as OSM (maybe AU?) policy, or left to the
>>> discretion of individual mappers?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Graeme
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>>
>> --
>> Warm Regards
>>
>> Ewen Hill
>> Internet Development Australia
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