Rules for mapping private information

[dieterdreist (Martin Koppenhöfer)]

Continuing the discussion from Mapping is Not Neutral: Why Adding Unsanctioned MTB Trails Endangers Access and Potentially Lives:

@Jarek

There is a short list of things that are generally not mapped in OSM at Mapping private information - OpenStreetMap Wiki.

it may still be short, but it is growing: Mapping private information: Difference between revisions - OpenStreetMap Wiki
since when do we consider the information about bank vaults or security cameras not mappable?
Is this a curated list of community consensus or a compilation of individual, uncoordinated ideas?

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

Mapping private information: Difference between revisions - OpenStreetMap Wiki was made without even edit description, so if you disagree with it simply reverting is fine

I did it in Mapping private information: Difference between revisions - OpenStreetMap Wiki

(though indoor mapping of bank vaults would likely run into verifiability issues)

[arctic-rocinante]

However, annoying artifacts will appear in applications like Pokémon Go with short driveways.

This seems like an oddly specific addition to the page

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

removed in Mapping private information: Difference between revisions - OpenStreetMap Wiki with description remove "However, annoying artifacts may appear in applications like Pokémon Go with short driveways." as unimportant and irrelevant and not deciding about anything

[dieterdreist (Martin Koppenhöfer)]

@Jarek

There is a short list of things that are generally not mapped in OSM at Mapping private information - OpenStreetMap Wiki.

it may still be short, but it is growing: Mapping private information: Difference between revisions - OpenStreetMap Wiki
since when do we consider the information about bank vaults or security cameras not mappable?
Is this a curated list of community consensus or a compilation of individual, uncoordinated ideas?

[woodpeck (Frederik Ramm)]

@dieterdreist

it may still be short, but it is growing:

Please break this out into a separate thread, it’s an important point that will otherwise get lost here.

[apm-wa (Allan Mustard)]

Done, moved to “Rules for mapping private information”.

[Negreheb]

@dieterdreist

since when do we consider the information about bank vaults or security cameras not mappable?

Just to be sure, the sentence was

places in a business without security camera protection

Thats not ‘Mapping a camera’ - thats explicitely mapping where you are not visible for a camera. And as its hard to impossible to verify, that sentence would be okay in there imo.