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

[Sam Vekemans]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Ya, your probably right.   After all, there is still alot of work todo to
map the existing world. :)
I'm just getting ahead of myself.  That'll be a project for next year :-)


Cheers,
Sam


>
> 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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