On 2018-01-12 14:52, Jo wrote:
> You are right in that we shouldn't base any of our mapping on what is
> visible on Google Streetview. Which is why I was suggesting that
> somebody go check it out locally. I've been looking at Belgian aerial
> imagery we are allowed to use, taken over several years. But nothing
> useful can be seen on them either. What can be seen is that almost
> never more than 1 car was parked there when the planes flew over. So
> it's definitely not a parking lot.
>
> I don't think we really have a way to tag an empty piece of land with
> no defined "function" nor vegetation on it,
>
> Jo
I have overlaid OSM with the PICC (the digitalized version of those
aerial photographs).
The PICC shows nothing more than the road border.

The PICC has a 20cm precision, is extremely well done and we can trace
it (not to be confused with "copy").
I often *highly* recommend to use the PICC with JOSM in Wallonia.
In fact, I'm spending much time to use them to correct what is
neigbouring what I'm mapping.
Often, for example, the buildings are traced as roofs based on
imprecise, vague aerial photos.
PICC shows building bases instead, very cleverly and precisely
calculated from multiple photo angles.
And with Area Selector, one can trace a streetfull of houses in a single
click each, including numbers.
I've been asked why ID and Potlatch would be worse than JOSM.
I don't know. Just that when I meet something to leave as is, I know and
I can check that it's JOSM.
See my picture. It's Potlatch.
The "area" is offset 2 m on the right and 6 m on south.
The building is 5 m away from its place and it has no number 2.
The pedestrian crossings 2m and 5m, the wood on the right 6 m.
Etc ... Often, more complicated maps are simply horrifying.
The roads are mostly right but I believe that it's better to follow
PICC's way choices closely to show that PICC was used. And PICC does the
conversion of curved to straight lines for you.
Mistakes are sometimes easily corrected with JOSM's Improve Way
Accuracy, but it's harassing to spend much time doing that while other
mistakes continue to be made. And mapping a new house is much, much
faster than correcting a bad one.

*PLEASE, PLEASE* use PICC with JOSM in Wallonia !!!
Wallonia have lost 6 years while I was trying to have the SPW correct
their PICC server's mistake and I was helping JOSM to improve.
JOSM is not really difficult to use. Use it more ans more in parallel
with another software, which you can use when you're stuck until you
find out how to do it with JOSM. You will appreciate what more you can
do with JOSM.

Cheers
Cordialement,

André.




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>
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> 2018-01-12 14:38 GMT+01:00 José G Moya Y. <josem...@gmail.com
> <mailto:josem...@gmail.com>>:
>
>     Please notice that, for doing something similar to what you do
>     here (reading a lot of maps and aerial imaginery, being only one
>     of them [3] google maps) I was forced to erase my edition and do
>     it again.
>     Just to warn you.
>
>     El 12/1/2018 8:30, "Jo" <winfi...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:winfi...@gmail.com>> escribió:
>
>         It definitely doesn't look like a public parking lot. It would
>         be good if someone local could resurvey if the shop is still
>         in that house.
>
>         Jo
>
>         2018-01-12 5:19 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com
>         <mailto:marc.ge...@gmail.com>>:
>
>             is there street view imagery ? do you have local knowledge ?
>
>             If not, you might consider not fixing it. Yes it will be a
>             useless
>             polygon in the database, but isn't that better than
>             changing it e.g.
>             to a parking lot while it is a private property ?
>
>             just my .5 cents
>
>             m.
>
>             On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:05 AM, OSMDoudou
>             <19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com
>             <mailto:19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com>> wrote:
>             > Hello,
>             >
>             > Osmose is complaining an area is mapped but not further
>             specified: [1] and
>             > [2]
>             >
>             > Here is how the place looks like: [3]
>             >
>             > I was thinking it's a side walk, but they're not to be
>             mapped as area [4]
>             > and the place doesn't really look like a square or plaza
>             [5] nor like a
>             > parking.
>             >
>             > How would you tag it ?
>             >
>             > Thx.
>             >
>             > [1] http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/error/15140678368
>             <http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/error/15140678368>
>             > [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/223853253
>             <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/223853253>
>             > [3] https://goo.gl/maps/yhA3rx2WVhM2
>             <https://goo.gl/maps/yhA3rx2WVhM2>
>             > [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk
>             <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sidewalk>
>             > [5]
>             https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian
>             <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpedestrian>
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