No, this does not fix it. The fundamental thing that you're trying to map here simply doesn't belong in OSM, the proposal will not pass, and I would advise you to stop wasting your time and everyone else's on it.
OpenStreetMap is a database of verifiable facts, not scientific measurements, and that's an important distinction. So while we might map the elevation of a mountain, the height of a building, or the width of a road, those are values that are fixed and perfectly verifiable by subsequent mappers. Mapping cell phone service is subject to the whims of the individual mapper's equipment, the environment, and a whole host of other factors discussed in this thread. We also don't map rasterized area measurements, things like elevation or bathymetric contours, or mean surface temperature or cloud cover. The database and its data model simply isn't set up for wide-area measurement data; there are other data sets that do these things. If tagging were established for such a thing as cell reception, we might imagine that the next thing that happens is someone releases a smartphone app that automatically uploads nodes with cell reception data into OSM, and very quickly the map would become uneditable due to a proliferation of computer-generated nodes. On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:17 PM NickKatchur via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > OP here. While there has been an overwhelming amount of feedback (or > criticism) for the proposal. I'd like to discuss thoughts and changes to > the proposal based on this discussion and that on the community forum ( > https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-cell-phone-reception/102131 > ). > > There seems to be a separation between those who largely disagree with any > mapping of such features within the OSM community and those that find value > and the possibility of inclusion. The following key highlights of the > revised proposal hopes to find a middle ground in the realm of realistic to > map while also providing user benefit. >
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