On 09/02/19 16:18, Mark Wagner wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:54:16 +1000
Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Does OSM recognise, & allow the mapping of, micronations as defined
areas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
Was looking for something completely different :-) & just found this
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/653287455#map=15/38.0034/-87.6183
showing the "nation" of Pitchfork Union
https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Pitchfork_Union, complete with it's
Government Headquarters, Town Hall, military training areas, network
of roads, toll booths on the public roads giving access to the area,
6m tall city wall & so on, none of which is visible in any overhead
or street level imagery I can find.
Everything has been created by one user over the last couple of
months.
Before contacting them to confirm that any of this stuff actually
exists, I thought I'd check to see if what they've done is allowed,
or if it counts as vandalism?
Is there another way of handling this?
My usual approach to micronations and fictional countries is to delete
them, warn the user about mapping things that don't exist (yes, it's a
form of vandalism), and point them at https://opengeofiction.net/
In this case they have been mapped as a 'residential area' with that name ...
The basic question is ... is that area residential?
If so it could be named that locally.
Certainly contact them to check the residential status. I'd leave the name out
of it. Just the truth about the areas use.
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