[OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

[Kate Chapman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On Thursday 19 November 2015, Kate Chapman wrote:
>
>
> And if on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1300 i read:
>
> "Please draw one large area outline around groups of buildings and tag
> them landuse=residential"
>
> that is in violation of one of the core principles of OSM, namely to map
> reality, what's on the ground.  It instructs mappers to map something
> that does not exist in reality based on abstract geometric
> considerations and to give it a tag that is meant for something
> different.
>
> Referring to
>

 landuse=residential is a globally used tag, so you can hardly call out HOT
for using it.

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=residential#map



>
> > Do we not have the same goal of a free map of the entire world?
>
> if instructions like the above indeed describe the aims of HOT for
> mapping its vision of a free map of the entire world is indeed very
> different from mine.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
>
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