aighes
(Henning)
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Not quite sure about your message. The truck driver in the US might ask the same question, about adding a bicycle route. Is this a reason not to add bicycle routes to OSM? No, this just resulting in that this truck driver won’t add them. If it doesn’t make sense to you adding something to OSM, doesn’t mean all OSM mapper think the same. In some areas, infrastructure is build faster than we get new data sources, like in China. The building you map today might be replaced by a higher building next year, a village might get replaced by a railway bridge,… still we map, what is there at the moment.
In the recent ~20 years there have been too many wars in the world and even more conflicts. In areas like Irak and Afghanistan even more or less the hole existence of OSM. During all that time every building, every infrastructure could have been destroyed anytime. But still mapping in those areas was quite normal. Same in African countries, where local conflicts are persistent for quite some time.
The only thing what’s special with Russia/Ukraine are the fact, that both parties have a rather active community.