[Talk-us] Removal of sensitive data in East Bay Regional Park District, CA

[Mike Thompson]

I contacted the original mapper.  He said the information originally came
from:
https://eastbayhillpeople.com/map/

The information was publicly available (although not "public domain" - the
page is copyright and that could be another issue) prior to being in
OpenStreetMap, and it remains publicly available as of now.  If we remove
the information from OSM it does not protect the sites as that information
is easily available elsewhere, it just makes OSM a less rich data source.

While not all data belongs in OSM (Frederik gave some good examples), I
think we should be careful to not head down the slippery slope of allowing
government officials to dictate what we map. We should listen to them, like
we listen to anyone else, but the bar should be fairly high for data
removal.

Mike




On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I appreciate all the thoughtful replies on this topic.  It's hard for me
> to weigh in substantively on the topic simply because I don't feel that I'm
> informed enough about tribally sensitive areas to really offer an informed
> opinion.  What I do know is that the representatives of the people of
> California freely created the East Bay Regional Park District to, among
> other things, think about how best to manage the lands under their
> administration.  Absent some really compelling reason why we should
> second-guess their judgement on this topic, our default position ought to
> be to respect their position on sensitive areas.  We should respect the
> autonomy of a community to set mapping standards, and that "community"
> should include the broader society that cares what gets put on maps and not
> just the few of us that choose to actively participate in this project.
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