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

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On 31 May 2010, at 21:31 , Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:

> 
> 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.

word of mouth is normally the original source and a name on map is derived from it. so it can be verified.
and what is on the ground is the feature itself. the rule can't be applied to every tag. very few values can be verified on the ground

> 
> 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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