On Thursday 16 August 2018, john whelan wrote: > Could this be used to detect villages and towns which have not yet > been mapped. > > If something could drop some sort of marker where it thinks a cluster > of buildings are then we could use overpass to pull them into JOSM > and map them as places, landuse=residential, village or whatever.
As you might already imagine reality is way ahead of you - for example someone has recently been dumping a whole bunch of garbage exactly like this in eastern Congo: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61401087 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/614459980 From a purely technical point of view if it wasn't littering OSM this would just be droll. Verifiability my ass... -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk