[talk-au] US Trails Working Group

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 04.01.22 12:29, Warin wrote:
> 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.

Within the envelope of stuff that is admissible to OSM, usefulness is a
very subjective concept. If you are in the fire brigades, then maybe
mapping a single fire hydrant is more useful to you than all of the post
offices combined.

It is commendable that you let your mapping be guided by trying to think
about the "general usefulness for others", however this is not a
necessary (nor a frequent!) trait in OSM contributors. Mapping what
interests you is totally ok - and is often also the way to ensure that
what is mapped is mapped well, because it is mapped by people who
understand something about it!

Of course this "let everyone map what they want" rule has its limits
where one mapper's work starts to make life difficult for other mappers.
For me, this point often comes when one mapper goes over board in
creating giant relations that will slow down and confuse others (think
of a newbie receiving a popup informing him that he has just edited the
5000-member relation "Outback NSW" and whether that was on purpose or
so...).

Bye
Frederik

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