[OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[yvecai]

Michal,
You're half right IMO. I don't see such problems if
1) tagging is made by hunters
2) mapping is made by hunters

Yves

On 24.10.2016 16:01, Michał Brzozowski wrote:
> I, for one, think that hunting areas don't really belong to OSM. Or at
> least benefits are outweighed by problems. Firstly they may or may not
> be associated with OSM features. In the latter case, there's no
> guarantee that someone who edits a forest would understand it and not
> merge it with other forest (Not to mention inconsistency of treating
> ponds/lakes in forests as either cutting a hole or not). Also, there
> may or may not be any on-the-ground markings. If there are none, there
> should be an official database to which one can refer, in which case
> there's no point in duplicating it in OSM.
> The legal details vary around the world and we have seen that both
> mapping legal state and implementing very elaborate tagging (here it'd
> be: who, when, what, how) have not been successful.
> Not to mention any hunter who needs this data would rather go to
> official sources and not trust a map that anyone can edit.
> Obviously, we map legal state sometimes (like for routing), but this
> is mostly pragmatic and secondary to the feature. Here the legal state
> is a feature in itself.
>
> Michał
>
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