Changeset: 63012757
Added missing sqkm attribute to multiple large bodies of water.
Closed by A bird
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Discussion
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Comment from SK53
Please dont do this it is completely unnecessary. OSM stores geographical information: it is trivially easy to calculate the area. Furthermore as OSM gets improved incrementally areas may change, so if you used OSM to calculate the area the value you added might be wrong in the future. If you used some other source such as Wikipedia then you may also be wrong (what is the area of the Aral Sea), but in that case you may be violating the Ts&Cs which you agreed to when signing up.
Lastly fixed sizes for large sea areas are not useful because there will be multiple likely definitions (this is one reason why many of these are mapped as nodes not areas).
Areas should be avaialble on Wikidata. That is a suitable platform for this type of information.
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Comment from aharvey
I agree with SK53, this should be reverted for those reasons.
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Comment from xoryo
If we remove this, shouldn't we then also remove the other areas from the sea nodes? There are still a few, that is why I also added some sea areas in the past.
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Comment from A bird
How do you calculate the area when they are mapped as nodes and not areas?
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Comment from SK53
The whole point is that these are mapped as points because there is no clear consensus about their boundaries. Any area will be approximate and not guaranteed to be one that others will arrive at. Such subjective information just doesn't belong in OSM. Just because it is possible to add information to OSM does not imply that it *should* be added.
As I said in my original post, wikipedia or wikidata are potential places to store such values (where they will usually be backed by some reference source).
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Comment from woodpeck_repair
This changeset has been reverted fully or in part by changeset 63451640 where the changeset comment is: revert addition of sqkm attribute to water areas
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