Richard Weait wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Donald Campbell II > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I recently took a trip upriver to 2 small villages out in the back > areas of > > Guyana. Orealla and Siparuta. > (...) > > none of the houses I marked show up on the map. > > There's really nothing else out there if you can't see the houses. > :-) > (...) > > So without inventing an area around each POI, is there anything I can > do to > > make them render? > > (...) you might take an educated guess at > building dimensions and relative locations. (...) > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=5.23793&lon=-57.29217&zoom=17&layers=M >
Thanks for asking this question (which I've pondered about myself from time to time). I assume Orealla is this one http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=5.31975&lon=-57.33635&zoom=16 ? My suggestion is to make use of the landuse key http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse . Or you might want to consider abutters http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abutters (for which I have no idea how it renders as I haven't ever used it myself and there's no example). As you will see (as my edits get rendered) I added some guestimated landuse=residential to Orealla. E.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/105193022 Since you know the village feel free to change this, add around other houses, maybe even add some landuse=retail if such can be identified (e.g. around the bars). As for making educated guesses (i.e. guestimates) about the dimensions, etc of the houses you've POIed I think that's a good idea, too. In fact, after long time of pondering about this issue for some areas I know (that don't have hires imagery) I just happened to do some of that myself a few minutes before reading your question :) The results can be seen here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=60.576&lon=24.01744&zoom=17 , here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/88507493 , and e.g. here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/105185866 Note that I haven't done _any_ proper surveying of this area for OSM purposes but the area in question is my long time "summer" home from when I was born so I know it pretty much by heart and the end-result turned out surprisingly good with my pure guestimates. If you're looking at any of these before details are rendered you can use the data overlay (first click the + button on the top right corner of the map and choose "Overlays: Data" from there to see all(?) of the data for the area in question.) Have you ran into other OSM-mappers in Guyana, btw? Cheers from Haiti, -Jaakko -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Rendering-houses-from-POIs-tp6170373p6193335.html Sent from the Newbies mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
