[talk-au] Remote mapping of a fence

cleary osm at 97k.com
Wed Feb 12 22:54:54 UTC 2020



I agree with your concern. Some imagery may permit an experienced eye to identify a fence line. However identification of a particular fence by name would need more than the satellite imagery. If the source of other info including name is copyrighted, then it's inclusion in OSM is not appropriate. 



On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, at 9:07 AM, Warin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> A remote mapper is adding a fence line to OSM.
> 
> I believe the imagery detail is not sufficient to map this fence alone.
> 
> 
> See relation 10703889 (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/10703889).
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> 
> I think the remote mapper is using the website https://www.ddmrb.org.au/ 
> to establish where the fence is then using a very faint trace in imagery 
> to state there is a fence here.
> 
> Note https://www.ddmrb.org.au/copywrite/ - for private use only.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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