[OSM-talk] Alternative approach to producing countryside maps

[Nick Whitelegg]

Regarding the whole countryside thing, I'm wondering if an entirely 
alternative approach could be taken, given that things like field boundaries 
can be very difficult to survey.

Namely, you don't show field boundaries at all, but instead you note down 
places where the path is hard to follow, make some notes which will help 
others out and then upload to OSM as a "note" node.

Then, on a slippy map, a user could roll over the note and see the directions, 
whereas printed maps could optionally actually append the note to the map at 
the appropriate location.

If features like woods, ponds, gates, stiles were surveyed the resulting maps 
would probably be quite usable by your average person.

Nick