[Talk-ca] Mapping Private Roads?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [ ... wow, the attribution really got munged on this one.  ]
>> Still, the idea of touching base with his superior in the company
>> before making the trip seems like a good idea to me.
>
> I'm with Gregory on this one.  Don't ask the employee to do anything
> uncomfortable.  The roads, being private and access controlled can be
> marked as so in OSM.

My friend is very comfortable traveling around the property. I'm not
so comfortable with his offer to take me around the property (he has
an employee ID, I don't). The airspace overhead is not restricted (at
least not any more than non-company property nearby), so the road grid
information could be obtained from a small airplane flying overhead.
Obtaining the street names from overhead would be a problem. The issue
in my mind is the collection of GPS tracks (on the ground),
would/could the employer object? Further could this sort of data
collection cause any grief to Open Street Map?

I gather that some of the people living near the property do sometimes
try to use the property as a shortcut route (and when caught are
charged with trespass). Better maps would not help the trespass
situation...


Colin McGregor