[OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[john whelan]

A very interesting comment, considering the lengths we seem to go to to
avoid importing Open Data from official sources.

Cheerio John

On 24 Oct 2016 7:35 pm, "Pine W" <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a comment that I'd be wary of "No hunting", "Hunting allowed", or
> "Private property", or other signs on the ground that can actually be
> placed by anyone, whether or not they are legal. A problem that I've
> encountered more than once is a private property owner putting out what
> appeared to me to be an illegal sign, like putting a home-made speed limit
> sign on the small street that goes by their house. A similar problem that
> I've heard about is business owners putting out "No parking", "Customer
> parking only", "Private beach", and similar signs which were made to look
> official but actually were not approved by any government agency. So
> signage that you see in public is not always trustworthy, and I would be
> cautious about relying on it. Relying on official databases seems to me to
> be preferable to relying on signage.
>
> Pine
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> sent from a phone
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>> > Il giorno 24 ott 2016, alle ore 20:22, yvecai <yvecai at gmail.com> ha
>> scritto:
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>>
>> I'm not a hunter, but I have encountered a lot of "hunting forbidden"
>> signs in different places, sometimes every few meters apparently delimiting
>> an area. While I didn't map them at the time, I guess I could have done it
>> without having deeper insights into the hunting business, simply by looking
>> where the signs were.
>>
>> What you ask for is desirable, but I would not make it a requirement. In
>> any field you can provide better mapping if you know more about the topic,
>> but this hasn't led us to only ask specialists for their contribution.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
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