[OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[Warin]

I would use the 'Open Data from official sources' to confirm the 'on the 
ground' public signage. A conflict should lead to further 
investigation/thought.

   On 25-Oct-16 10:45 AM, john whelan wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>         sent from a phone
>
>         > Il giorno 24 ott 2016, alle ore 20:22, yvecai
>         <yvecai at gmail.com <mailto: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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