[Talk-us] 'creative' mapping

[Minh Nguyen]

On 2012-11-13 7:20 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
> On 2012-11-13 09:11, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>> I got this from a MapRoulette user:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.414586&lon=-84.815333&zoom=18&layers=M
>>
>> Anyone know what this is about?
>
>  From open.mapquest.com satellite view, it appears to be a corn maze.
> There should probably be a business tag here for the attraction. As
> these change every season, I sure hope this user plans on keeping this
> up-to-date.

Sure, as long as Bing keeps updating their imagery. I just updated the 
maze, which unfortunately is less interesting than last year. [1] I've 
mapped one other corn maze, near Sydney, OH, but Bing still shows the 
2012 design. [2] Their website features a schematic, but it's basically 
a copyrighted map. [3] Plus, this year's design includes the trademarked 
McDonald's logo, and we wouldn't want OSM getting _too_ commercial. ;-)

Besides corn mazes, I've also mapped the occasional romantic shoutout 
[4] and patriotic "USA" with type=message relations, just to make the 
world a little more machine-readable.

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/107158117
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/133601537
[3] http://www.vandemarkfarm.com/fun/lost-land-corn-maze.html
[4] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2554858

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