[OSM-talk] Should we be mapping tank tracks in Gaza?

[Peter Miller]

On the aerial photography for the Gaza Strip there are areas where  
there are tank tracks over some farming areas. Personally I have not  
been mapping these because I don't consider them as permanent  
features. At least one mapper is including them, for example here (to  
straight lines are the traditional tracks, the curved lines are  
probably related to the conflict:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.53651&lon=34.56128&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

Should the general rule be that we only map what we consider to be  
permanent features? As such we should not map these unless they are  
still there is a year's time and have clearly become normal tracks.

The photography we purchased is not generally available for licence  
reasons, but Google Maps now have photography for the area available  
which I think was taken after the start of the conflict. You can check  
it out here and see the sort of features we are talking about:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.51049,34.533076&spn=0.00933,0.018239&t=h&z=16



Regards,



Peter