[OSM-talk] Scientific/Species Data in OSM Database - Collaborators

[Alex Rollin]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Gilles Bassière <gbassiere at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The case of flora might be easier because plants don't move but some
> of them are visible only a part of the year. It will be complicated to
> keep the map updated.
>
> In my opinion, mapping habitat will fit better in the OSM model
> because it is stable (more or less) and it is really visible in the
> landscape.


I do understand the case and considerations for including "stable" data.  I
don't want to argue about that in this thread. Just hoping to meet more
people doing this sort of thing and finding out how they doing it and
collecting ideas about how to do it.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> I like the idea of a relation type which has other objects (nodes,
> maybe also ways) included with the roles inside or outside (optional).


This seems like a reasonable way to do things.  Is anyone doing this?

Some may have noticed this I asked how to do something like this in another
thread, specifically with the purpose of being able to monitor the data
over time.

So, is anyone out there placing information into relations in OSM and
monitoring that information over time?

Does anyone have a process they follow for recording their observations?

If we want to place it into OSM, into relations or otherwise, then we still
need to monitor and make sure that the reference tag is in place.  I hope
folks interested in curating data are paying lots of attention to all this
changeset discussion.  Seems relevant.

a
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