On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought it would be a good start in OSM to improve the mapping of my own > neighborhood. I have worked on the road alighnmets, adding bridges etc. I > also started adding addresses. I am pretty sure these are all good things to > do. 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?
Hi Stephen, You'll find there are plenty of cities around the world that do have every building mapped - especially say France and Germany. A few suggestions to yield a useful map which is not misleading: - start with the city centre, then major commercial or industrial areas, leave residential areas last - start with bigger or more prominent buildings, work down to minor buildings - if you're going to map any houses in an area, map *every* house in the area. (Don't single individual houses out) I feel that building outlines are a bit of a special case, where a little data can be almost worse than none. It's ok to trace a few streets and leave others out - but it's weird, misleading, and perhaps worse to map certain buildings and leave others out. Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
