[OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

[Warin]

On 19/1/23 14:03, john whelan wrote:
> Apparently you can do a lot of expensive damage by firing a rifle 
> bullet through them as happened more than once in the US and given the 
> situation in Europe at the moment is there a risk that something 
> similar could happen there?
>
> Should we have a process that says some things should not be mapped?
>
> I seem to recall that the location of the pipeline that supplies 
> aviation fuel to airports is considered an official secret in the UK.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>

The major ones appear on the government topo maps, so they are not 
'secret'.

There is lots of 'infrastructure' that has vulnerability yet is mapped. 
My mother was concerned when she saw a map of the snowy mountains scheme 
when she first went there, concerned that so foreign power would obtain 
that information for use in a war... Both the Rusian and American mapped 
the world with their own topo maps for potential military use years ago, 
some of them are available on the web.

If they don't appear on OSM maps people will simply change to other 
sources. I see no point in there removal.