Hello Shinsplints,

This cabin was well publicized on several mediums (Internet forums, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc) and within various niche topics (hiking, mountain biking, trail running, peak bagging, foraging, orienteering, abandoned explorations, etc) before the features were documented on OpenStreetMap so it's hard to determine if and what role OSM played.

My current personal policy for adding "secret" or "sensitive" features such as this cabin is to only add those that are either well publicly publicized and/or well visited. This cabin fit that description and therefore I added it to OSM. I continually discuss this policy with others and am open to constructive changes that revolve around quantitative metrics.

Currently, I have left off all other cabins on the North Shore and nearly all cabins in the Sea-2-Sky region. Looking at recent data suggests that those cabins see significantly less traffic than this one did and therefore do not fit my own personal policy. However, if another user was to add the cabins then I would not remove them as it would go against OSM's ground truth policy.

I should note that there have been more than a dozen cabins on the North Shore destroyed over the years. Often it's because of lightening or accidental fires. None of those cabins were documented on OpenStreetMap.

As a final note I should stress that OSM has a ground truth policy whereby the world is mapped as it exists rather than as one wants it to be displayed. This is different than other platforms you are likely familiar with like TrailForks, which allow significant and frequently arbitrary curation of what is displayed.

I hope this helps provide some background.

Cheers, eerib