Hi all,
altough it looks nice around LOWI, it is not the magic solution to all problems
in life. It won't (yet) work very well or not at all for large parts of the
world. It's certainly promising and a nice addition to our current auto
generated buildings, but no replacement yet.
- When there are buildings, you'll often find that they are drawn as big
blocks, rather than individual houses. You'd get big industrial buildings,
where you'd expect small terrace houses etc. You can nicely see that when
comparing the houses that I've added to the surrounding blocks:
http://osm.org/go/0EtXwp8eH-- (for NL and some other countries this individual
building data is freely available, but for lots of others it isn't)
- Even "top" locations like Manhattan, Tokyo and Sydney have very little
buildings in OSM.
- Before I could create some sensible buildings for New York I had to add
height tags; all skyscrapers were simply lacking that data.
- Also see http://wiki.flightgear.org/OpenStreetMap_buildings#Challenges
A related project is to map points of interest from OSM to our model, which is
documented at http://wiki.flightgear.org/OpenStreetMap_import Again, that's an
addition to the existing data, not a replacement.
Just in case my email reads as a complaint: it isn't. Having OSM building
shapes in FlightGear would be awesome (I've spent quite some time on Bob
myself), but we have to be realistic and name it's shortcomings. And realise
that we should not throw away existing stuff untill we have a global solution.
Cheers,Gijs
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