[Talk-ca] Mapping 'proposed' or 'planned' or 'construction' trails/roads/buildings

[Gregory]

People try to get this sort of information from textual descriptions (and
local knowledge). Then of course it will probably need correcting once it is
open/accessible.
You can try and work it out from standing at a construction fence and
looking at which direction the road takes. You can also try contacting
people for permission to copy their map (if they surveyed/created it or have
full rights to give to you) or to access their land. It all depends how much
work you want to do when sooner or later you will be able to map the trail
in the normal way of going along it.

On 14 April 2010 13:06, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> What is the communities policy for mapping 'planned construction'?
>
> Here's the situation, the Capital Region District (Victoria area) has
> already gained the approval of the people to actually build a trail
> section (from Langford to Shawnigan lake).
> All that needs now is some funding and some land ownership agreements.
>
> It goes over existing 'wooded area' and wont interfear with anything else.
>
> My guess would be that 'because the proposal is now in the 'waiting
> for construction' phase, it would be OK to map. (so it needs to gain
> council approval)
>
> But the catch is, is that it needs direct permission from the
> cartographer who drew that map that was on public display. Or the
> person was directly part of the 'scouting mission' to physically hike
> the terrain (with landowner approval) and donated the tracks to
> OpenStreetMap.
>
> Of course, at eithor end, the road/path should not be physically
> connected, and gates & signage drawn on the map where it physically
> exists.
>
> Ideas?
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
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