Bjoern, On 06/11/2017 11:17 PM, Bjoern Hassler wrote: > I think it would be better to trace actual building outlines rather > than generate generic placeholders from single nodes, > > Of course. However, it was a significant effort to mark the 3200 > buildings, and it's impossible for me to manually trace 3200 buildings.
Then trace as many as you can, and leave the rest to people who actually have the time to do it right. With JOSM's building plugin I can trace a (square) building with three mouse clicks. If the imagery is good I can easily trace 10 buildings per minute. I need less than a working day for 3200 buildings. What you propose here sounds awfully complicated and will very likely involve more than a person-day of work. Adding extruded buildings - i.e. a pure guesswork building outline based on a centre point someone has manually placed - is adding fake information to OSM. Don't do it. If you only have the time to place a centre point then that's ok, tak the centre point as building=yes, but don't add a builing outline that is guesswork. Did I understand you correctly that you even have developed a plugin to extrude buildings? And at the same time you're telling me you cannot add 3200 buildings by hand? This only makes sense if your plan is to, down the line, repeat this procedure in even greater numbers. > Only from a certain perspective :) The health workers we work with need > to primarily know where buildings are. Then the points are sufficient. > Of course, the nodes would > suffice for that. However, node[building] doesn't render in standard > carto, hum carto, or maps.me <http://maps.me>. This is not an acceptable reason. You are planning to add fake data just because you (a) cannot be bothered to spend one working day to add correct data, and (b) you cannot be bothered to set up a map rendering that works for you with the data you *can* add. You are trying to abuse our database for your project. > So what's the practical solution, for us to support the health workers? Either map real buildings correctly; or map buildings as points (and if you need it, set up a rendering server that displays little house icons where these points are), or use something other than OSM. Setting up a rendering with "house icons" for an area as small as the one we're talking about should be easy with a tool like Maperitive; you don't even need a full-blown tile server. Don't add the "olc:short" codes either; as you have been told, anything that can be computed from the lat/lon unnecessary. If you add the data in the way you have described here, it will most likely be removed again. It would be reckless to build a workflow your health workers depend on that includes abusing OpenStreetMap, because the workflow *will* break - and that will then not be the fault of the OSM mapper who has removed your buggy data, but your fault for assuming you could add buggy data to OSM! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
