[talk-au] tagging burnt areas

[Phil Wyatt]

I agree – plenty of other services doing this much better – suspect it would only clutter up OSM and be neglected pretty quickly

 

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Cheers - Phil

From: Nathanael Coyne <nat at purecaffeine.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2020 9:56 AM
To: adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
Cc: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] tagging burnt areas

 

It'd be like trying to tag plots in landuse=forest as felled or mature. While it'd be interesting it would quickly become unreliable and reduce the quality of data.

 

So while I would love to have burnt areas mapped in OSM I just think it's not worth trying.

 

Nathanael Coyne

 

 

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 09:44, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com> > wrote:

I’d  personally avoid tagging areas as burnt - they’re temporary and as per advice from Andrew maybe should be left tagged as their long term state.

 

Looking around where I am (Benambra and north) there are already a lot of overlapping/duplicated/whats this for polygons relating to land cover… it’d be great to avoid adding more.

 

I guess if people want to add burned areas, my only suggestion is that whoever does so takes it upon themselves to return and update things later…

 

Regards,

 

Adam

 

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