On Thursday 16 August 2018, Warin wrote: > > Satellite imagery is available for the world.. > But how much do you know of Africa? > [...]
You maybe don't realize that but the kind of data garbage i pointed to is the direct result of projecting ideas and experiences of settlement structures of some part of the world onto a different one. We are mostly talking about scattered dwellings of what are probably mostly subsistence farmers here. The pointless polygon geometry drawing is the failed attempt to regard those as a typical European/North American residential area. If this is due to a lack of knowledge about the actual geography or because of a misguided belief that making it crudely look a bit like an European/North American residential area is kind of beneficial for the people there i don't know. Anyway we are drifting off-topic here and this does not really help the original question from John. My answer to that would be: Yes, automated methods can help to find unmapped settlements in OSM - less though in actually mapping them. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk