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

[James]

I'm for mapping trees, it can have helpful information about trees:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.43369/-75.56387

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4958732118#map=19/45.43427/-75.56282

and not just the tree location itself

just because YOU don't use the data, doesn't mean OTHERS can't

On Wed., Apr. 28, 2021, 1:25 p.m. Dave F via talk, <talk at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> If it's physical & stationary, it can be mapped. How much time & detail is
> up to the individual mapper.
>
> What would be good is if renderers could render the canopy of the trees
> branches based on a tag indicating roughly the diameter such as canopy=8.
>
> The speed of panning in an editor is annoying. Potlatch has a real problem
> with a town where all the houses are mapped as nodes. Surprisingly if
> they're mapped as complex polygons it has no problem zooming around.
>
> DaveF
>
>
>
> On 27/04/2021 04:02, Skyler Hawthorne wrote:
>
> I came across this:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/42.71889/-73.78869
>
> And can't help but think that this serves no utility to anyone whatsoever,
> and just takes up space and slows down map editors.
>
> 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?
>
> Maybe I'm too pessimistic. What does everyone else think? Is there such a
> thing as too much detail? Where do we draw the line?
>
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