[talk-au] US Trails Working Group

[Warin]

On 3/1/22 10:59 pm, stevea wrote:
> Mmm, mostly, I’d say, Warin.  But let’s be careful not to encourage “only what my use cases are” too much.  When you say “if it cannot be seen from a public, customer or permissive place then I don't really care to map it,” I ask for caution with this sort of attitude.  This is too parochial and “it isn’t useful for ME, so I don’t care to map it” leans towards "it shouldn’t be in OSM.”  This precludes a great many things from potentially entering our map.  It “lacks object permanence,” (the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or otherwise sensed).
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> For example, a prison might meet your definition and fail to be entered, but I’d still like it to be in OSM and I might even map one if I know enough about it to do so.  However, you do, of course, remain free to “not really care to map it.”  That’s OK, but as everybody does that, OSM will remain under-mapped.

There is lots to map. Some of it more useful than others. Not a question of 'leave that off the map' but rather 'what to add to the map that is of most use'.

Example?

There are ~1,300 Rural Fire Brigades as yet unmapped in NSW. Do they deserve to be mapped? Yes.

But are other things more useful, and as yet unmapped?  For example there are ~50 police stations missing from the NSW map.

Which better to spend my time mapping? Which is of more use? I think the Police Stations are of more use to the general public when compared to Rural Fire Brigades...

I have not as yet looked at hospitals, nor post offices... and I think both of them are more useful to the map than Rural Fire Brigades.




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