[OSM-talk] Airspace & Co.

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> But before I do all that, I would like to hear from the community at
> large - you - whether you share my view. Do you agree that airspace
> should be elsewhere but not in OSM? Or do you think that airspace
> should have a place in OSM after all?

I agree to strongly discourage airspace tagging.

Its nice that OSM has this open tagging structure and all. But at some point we
have to draw the line, otherwise OSM will devolve into a total mess that nobody
can understand and handle any more.

I would like OSM to be open do all these things, but with the current data
structure and tools we simply have to limit ourselves. I'd love to have a more
powerful data structure in OSM with some kind of layering and better tools to
handle the amount of data. But currently we don't have that and I don't see
it appearing anytime soon. So I think its better to voluntarily limit OSM
a little bit.

I don't know where "the line" is, between what we, as a community want, and
what we don't want. We will have to discuss that again and again. But I am
pretty sure that airspaces are very far "on the other side of that line".

Jochen
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