City vs rural data

Posted Oct 31, 2024 20:24 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: City vs rural data by SLi
Parent article: The Overture open-mapping project

Maps of trails in the mountains surrounding the SF Bay Area are very good in OSM, thanks to lots of hikers contributing.

City vs rural data

Posted Oct 31, 2024 21:14 UTC (Thu) by atnot (guest, #124910) [Link] (2 responses)

Yes, it very much depends. For example in the german/austrian alps, some regional tourist boards seem to have official OSM accounts and regularly update the map with route closures, path difficulties and other information. But other things like benches are very poorly mapped. It all depends on who's there and what data they care about which varies a lot.

City vs rural data

Posted Oct 31, 2024 22:29 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] (1 responses)

I should say that while the trail maps are accurate, facilities like rest rooms aren't marked reliably, often if it's marked on the map it just means there was an outhouse at that spot at one time.

Still, the map is useful.

City vs rural data

Posted Nov 1, 2024 10:56 UTC (Fri) by njh (subscriber, #4425) [Link]

That chimes with the observation in the article that the network of ways is easier to keep up-to-date than the volatile point-of-interest layers.