[OSM-talk] Too much detail, or: mapping every single tree in a park

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 27 Apr 2021, at 05:07, Skyler Hawthorne <osm at dead10ck.com> wrote:
> 
> I hesitate to destroy the effort of someone who clearly spent a significant amount of time meticulously mapping each tree, but... at the same, does it really help anyone to know where each individual tree is in a park?


At least someone thought they were sufficiently interesting to map. Trees even when mapped one by one, are not dense enough to actually slow down a reasonably built editor, nor take they up so much space (we’re not going to map every tree in the world, this is something that is either done in urban areas or a handful of freestanding or otherwise significant trees in natural or rural areas)

Here’s a report from someone telling about their tree mapping:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck/diary/393947

Cheers Martin 
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