[OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On 31. mai 2010, at 21.13, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How do, on the ground, you verify the name of a peak?
> 
> You look at the sign. Talk to the hikers you passed on the way up with your GPS.
>  
>> How do you, on the ground, verify a national park or nature reserve?
> 
> It sounds like you're talking about the border of the park or reserve. As has been said before, borders probably don't belong in OSM. The name of a park is probably verifiable though.
> 
>> All of these things might be properly marked with signs where you are, but they certainly are not everywhere.
> 
> If they are not marked, how do the locals know what and where they are? 

Please, take a vacation outside densely populated areas. Northern Norway is quite nice: http://osm.org/go/1KyNf--

Names are often passed by word of mouth, or learned from a map. You /might/ find some signposted peaks, but I doubt it.

If we are supposed to leave out every name that isn't signposted we might as well just give up on creating anything like a nice hiking map for Norway right away. And if we aren't doing anything but roads we might as well use Google maps, they are quite good at that.

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