On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I have started that I am not sure of is adding building > outlines for all the houses for which that is possible based on the Bing > Satellite images. I have looked around in some larger cities (not an > extensive search though) and haven't seen any buildings outlined in > residential neighborhood only in more commercial districts. Is there some > reason I should not do this? Maybe it hasn't been done because it doesn't > add much useful information but is labor intensive? It is a bit tedious but > I figured if everyone just did their own neighborhood, large areas could be > done. Any thoughts? If you look hard enough, you'll find whole residential areas with every building outline entered. I ran into a place like that a couple years ago. It just shows that some people really have a lot of attention to detail, and patience. OSM is a collaborative project where you can enter as much detail as you want. A user in my local area entered lot outlines and building outlines in what is presumably is their neighborhood. http://osm.org/go/WPoq5qQK As you can see however, the attention to detail was seriously lacking. Each lot is unique, with gaps between the lots, rather than sharing a common border, and the building outlines are rarely even close to where they should be. Every time I look at this, it irks me because of the lack of accuracy. One day I will get in there and correct it, but I haven't hit that threshold yet. -- James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
