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

[Shalabh]

Thanks a ton, will take this forward. The Stavanger transformation on
OSM is an inspiration, I hope to improve my hometown's situation to a
similar extent. :)

Cheers

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Gorm E. Johnsen <osmlist at gorm.cc> wrote:
> 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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>> >> -Mitch Hedberg
>> >>
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