[OSM-talk] what can be mapped - temporary, pernament and reoccuring

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Fri May 25 18:17:42 UTC 2018


Hi,

   I think it is not possible to make clear distinction here. You write
yourself that

> OpenStreetMap is not a place to map events that happened in the
> past or will likely happen in the future. 

and then you write that you want to map

> a flea market present on each Tuesday, regular
> street otherwise (maybe with some street markings).

How infrequent does the flea market have to happen in order for it to
become an un-mappable "event"? Take a Christmas market for example,
which is like a flea market just less frequent... or is it an event already?

I think the key here is, like so often, verifiability. Things in OSM
must be verifiable, and I'd like to add "... with reasonable effort by
an average person". If something is verifiable only with expensive
special gear by a person with a doctorate in physics, then maybe OSM is
not the place. Same with recurring things - if their frequency is so low
that the effort to verify them becomes unreasonable, then don't map.

My gut feeling is that something that happens once a week is reasonably
easy to verify. Something that happens once a month, mmh, maybe ok.
Something that happens once a year is, in my opinion, too hard to verify
and should be left out.

(I don't mind someone mapping the Christmas market, or Burning Man, once
it is set up, and deleting everything again when it's packed up. It just
shouldn't be in OSM while it's not in the real world.)

Bye
Frederik

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