[Talk-GB] Advice please: Goat tracks in mountain areas

[Andy Mabbett]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 14:25, David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:

> The only circumstance in which I might consider it legitimate to self
> censor OSM would be where national security was involved

Would you be happy for that to apply in countries with a more
draconian attitude to national security, such as China? [1]

>  (and it seems to me that some people actually go out of their way to
> collect national infrastructure, which would become high priority targets
> for sabotage or air strikes).

Do you agree with the West Midlands Fire Service. West Midlands Police
position that fire hydrants are national infrastructure, which would
become high priority targets for sabotage [3]? Should we remove them
all from the map?

> Even then I would note that, when Fylingdales was active, the paper maps
> had "undefined" printed over the approximate location

OS and other UK maps, perhaps, but they were mapped in detail on Soviet maps.

It was also possible to buy postcards depicting the site. [2]

Stll, I'm sure that the feeling of safety was valued by those within
the nuclear blast radius.

> so I would probably want an OSM area type for marking areas of the map
> where information had been suppressed.

Who gets to decide what to suppress?


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China

[2] https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=Fylingdales++Moor++postcard

[3] https://www.mappa-mercia.org/2016/12/a-guide-to-mapping-fire-hydrants-in-the-uk.html

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk