With mountain ranges there would be a major problem where node should be placed. Carpathian Mountains cover 190 000 km² - good luck with edit wars where node should be placed.
It probably would work better as a separate database. ---- On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:09:47 -0800 Andrew Guertin <andrew.guer...@uvm.edu> wrote ---- On 12/12/2013 05:53 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2013/12/12 Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> >>> IMHO it would be nice to have an alternative dataset in lower zoomlevels >>> for geographic regions and extended/blurry features, something like a set >>> of shapefiles with translations into all languages we can provide, >>> something similar to what natural earth data provides, but distributed and >>> modified/translated by us, not just English and for higher zoom levels >>> (i.e. more detailed) than what NE has. Still we could start with their >>> geographic regions dataset and refine it, as "All versions of *Natural >>> Earth* raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public >>> domain." >>> >> Are you saying that this kind of data is a poor fit for OSM itself? > > yes, for the reasons described above: no clear boundaries / fuzzy borders. > A solution could also be a new datatype in OSM for fuzzy objects, (e.g. a > collection of objects and the consumer would create a hull area around > them, possibly also roles for objects that are to exclude), but at least > currently this kind of stuff does not fit into how osm works. Many villages or other small human settlements have no clearly defined boundaries, and we just represent them as a node. Similarly, many objects (say, shops) DO have clearly defined boundaries, but only have a node in OSM. In both cases, it's understood that the thing is an area, and the node means "it's somewhere around here". Those are common examples of nodes representing fuzzy objects, and I see no reason that a way couldn't also be fuzzy. Just as with nodes, it would be up to the consumer to either understand the level of fuzziness, ignore the feature entirely, or pass it through and let a human interpret it. --Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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