[Talk-us] 'creative' mapping

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Wed Nov 14 13:05:49 GMT 2012


On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 03:51 -0800, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> 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.

In the UK these are called Maize Mazes.

I assume that providing you pay your money, you can walk around with
your GPS and map to your hearts content. Proving there are no "No GPS"
signs of course.

Phil




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