[OSM-talk] Fwd: Mapping/Naming mountain ranges, valleys, other geographic areas

[Gorm E. Johnsen]

Shalabh

1. As someone aptly described us, we are a do-ocracy. While I would much
like to see stuff like the North Sea (
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/305639493) being rendered a little
better than today, I'm not the one with the abilities to create such a patch
for our beloved renderers. I am then left to create a ticket (
trac.openstreetmap.org) and/or to do some wikiwork.
Just as I am, you are perfectly free to start the vote yourself. Or perhaps,
as I would like to do myself: Forget about voting, extend the wikippage to
become a full feature description, use "fuzzy" as many places many places
you can think of, point at usage (at tagwatch) when you update the
trac-ticket and wake up this thread again some day, etc, etc. Thats the way
things happen.

2. Thanks! Nice to see some positive words in between all the 'poisonous'
babble here lateley...  When you come to visit, I can point you in the
direction of some still unmapped areas around here  :-)

best regards
Gorm E. Johnsen


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Shalabh <shalabh.w at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gorm,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Helped me in 2 ways
>
> 1. I map a lot of mountains and physical features in Himachal, India
> and was looking for a way to best render them. Any clue when is the
> vote for this proposal scheduled (I did not see an update on the wiki
> page).
>
> 2. I followed from your user page to your brother's, got to saw the
> pre and post maps of Stavanger. You guys have done some awesome work.
> One thing led to another and I have been reading about Stavanger, its
> history, name origins, cathedral, oil and fishing industry on
> wikipedia for more than 3 hours now. Thats a lot of learning!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shalabh
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Gorm E. Johnsen <osmlist at gorm.cc> wrote:
> > Erik
> >
> > Try this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Fuzzy
> >
> > >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Erik G. Burrows <erik at erikburrows.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >> I'm a little unclear on how map geographic area features, such as
> mountain
> >> ranges, and valleys. Often these have names (and some have more
> metadata),
> >> but are not a clearly defined simple polygon. Do we map these at all?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>  Erik Burrows
> >>
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