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Standards?

Posted by JWHIP on 19 May 2019 in English.

While editing this evening I scrolled through my community going down the full length of the river that runs through town. I was adding any boat ramps and parking areas that were not already on the map. I found a few boat ramps which are slipways in OSM to be presented differently. I found one that was a line that made a box. I found some that were points. one that was a point along a line, and then some that were just straight lines. I found it interesting to see how some parking lots were areas while others were just points. I would assume that there is no real protocol for how to properly mark a slipway of parking lot. I just wanted to make not of this finding and share it if thats what happens to these diary entries. I am still learning the program and wanted to try this feature out. more for myself to remember that there are many ways to skin a cat.

next project may be marking the points along the Colorado river where there are campgrounds.

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Comment from Richard on 19 May 2019 at 18:34

It’s not so much that there are no standards, more that OSM is incremental. If you just want to add a point, that’s fine; if you’ve got the time to draw in the full dimensions of the slipway and car park, even better. But it’s better to have the basic data than none at all.

That’s absolutely standard practice across OSM - the same is true for shops and churches, for example - and if you have the inclination, replacing simple points with areas is always welcome.

I’ve done a few slipways as I’ve been scrolling around US rivers so it’s great to see more work happening on this!

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