[OSM-talk] Field boundaries

[Mark Williams]

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courtland.yockey at mindspring.com wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about this from a very different perspective - that of parks and other open public areas where you might not have a chance to walk the perimeter ... for instance, you've a dog who really doesn't want that boring walk around the edge, but bobs and weaves all about the space and this might be one of only a couple of potential visits you might be able to make to the site.  I think that an accumulation of unordered points over time either by one person or multiple people who capture GPS information _incidentally_ would be useful in defining the core of the public (or private, in the case of tractors on farmland) space.  There's no need to gather tracks, merely points.  Let the accumulation of points define the space.  This is something of a corollary to the notion of "wisdom of the crowd" and it can be seen in action in the United States on major thoroughfares, such as the interstate highways, where the accumulation of multiple tracks over time can be u
sed to define a way.
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> user id on openstreemap = ceyockey
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If I'm out walking with the dogs, I tend to not go near the edge UNLESS
I'm mapping, because they won't crawl under hedges if I'm already a fair
way off, but will do so happily if it doesn't take them far. I suspect
I'm not the only one, so you'd end up with a ludicrously fat hedge.

I also tend not to go into corners & will often stop a little before the
end of a field.

Mark
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