I've started to get serious about adding landuse= and natural= to my local area. Makes the map look MUCH more filled-out. I encourage you to try it. Yes, you. Right there. Yep, don't look around, I mean you.
OpenStreetMap
I've started to get serious about adding landuse= and natural= to my local area. Makes the map look MUCH more filled-out. I encourage you to try it. Yes, you. Right there. Yep, don't look around, I mean you.
Discussion
Comment from compdude on 4 June 2011 at 02:54
Agreed.
Comment from Hawkeye on 4 June 2011 at 15:48
There plenty of ideas here for natural/landuse mapping:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Environmental_OSM
Some of the tagging scheme still needs working out. So if you are Wiki writing inclined, or want to learn - join the debate and help improve the Wiki
Comment from olejorgenb on 4 June 2011 at 18:19
The tools for landuse mapping could be a lot better though. JOSM + some plugins (eg. contourmerge) is decent, but not great.
Comment from nmixter on 4 June 2011 at 22:26
Landuse is the way to go. Nothing is more boring than a white map. Too bad more counties don't open up their data for importing into osm. Someday maybe the us will look like germany or brittian.
Comment from chillly on 6 June 2011 at 16:05
@nmixter: Most of Britain has been done by surveying, not from imported data. Imports can put off the other mappers, so bad imports can damage our most precious resource, mappers.