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

[john whelan]

It's cheaper to add a note saying in memory of than pay for plaque so as
soon as they are planted this year by the City there will be half a
dozen trees in Ottawa with such a note together with a park bench.

Cheerio John

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 13:36 James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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