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Wuzzy Sep 26, 2023

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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Janealogy Scottish Fam Hist Sep 26, 2023

@Wuzzy very novice question here, is this in anyway suitable for mapping the names of crofts that have or are about to disappear and not named on OS maps? On a quick look there is not the detail for that to be done with much accuracy. Or am I missing the point??

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Colm Ó Donnchadha Sep 26, 2023

@Janealogy @Wuzzy I'd say so

I'm not fully sure what a Croft is, is it the whole farm a crofter has and their home, or just the land immediately around their house?

Anyway, assuming it's 2 or more areas of land,(if it's all one connected piece of land it's even easier)
You can draw an outline, and tag it with the Croft name.
When you go to edit the map, there's aerial photography from a few years ago, so you can see land boundaries

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Janealogy Scottish Fam Hist

@ColmDonoghue @Wuzzy it's all the land, the house would be a croft house - but that is really what I would be mapping. For boundaries problem is that most are now incorporated into bigger farms so boundaries (if they were ever recorded) would be hard to draw.