[OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

Apollinaris Schoell aschoell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 16:18:37 GMT 2009


On 18 Dec 2009, at 3:51 , Mikel Maron wrote:

> 
> Of course, we now have a map with data shown past the end_date for the 2008 event. The most obvious option is tuning the renderers to data past it's end date. There's downsides to that .. larger planet size, increased complexity in osm2pgsql/mapnik style rules. Another option is a seperate project more tuned to historic data, though that certainly has it's drawbacks.
> 
> In the mean time, Burning Man is such an isolated place and event, I think it's a good place to continue to experiement with these problems. So if it's all to same to you .. don't delete the Man! As Aaron said in his post, there's another year before we need to figure out what to do!

not isolated enough, someone found it and started the discussion. I knew about it and didn't change anything for that reason and left it to the creators of the data. but any mapper not knowing about burning man might wipe it out without asking.

> 
> Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com>
> > As I was considering doing a similar thing for Glastonbury, I was
> > wondering what the consensus on mapping temporary (but regular) structures?
> 
> I guess Glastonbury has a very similar circumstance to Burning Man. I don't think there's consensus, but happy to keep discussing the possibilities.
> 
> Mikel
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