Tom Chance <t...@...> writes: > > > On 24 May 2010 15:24, Gregory <nomoregrapes <at> googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Harry has done some good blog posts about London's gaps in buildings. But this is an area with strong mapping activity. We can leave it to locals to trace buildings in the gaps with some memory or to hold off if they know people are surveying it this week. In cities & towns with no buildings at all, it's better to leave these blank and when the mappers come they can work on it. > > > > > I think that's a bit naieve.There are still lots and lots of "noname" roads in London, particularly in the poorer parts of outer London. Road names are really very easy to survey and add in.After all of TimSC's work there are large parts of London without landuse areas.Whilst Harry's mapping parties have done wonders for POIs in Central London, the rest of the city has very patchy coverage.Even cycle routes are incomplete and cycle parking coverage is very limited.Mapping buildings based on surveys for accuracy is laborious by comparison, and even after a year or more of experimentation by a few brave souls a tiny percentage of London has seen any activity.I'm inclined to support a mass import of automatically traced buildings with a noname layer equivalent, or a modification to noname, to aid verification and improvement by people such as myself who are interested in doing buildings properly.Best,Tom > > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > talk...@... > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
I appreciate what TimSC has done and would like to see use made of it if someone can give a legal opinion that the licence is rock solid, but I do not see us as ready for a nationwide import yet; while there is no particular problem why buildings should not run ahead of addresses, other places where the community has to digest the results may come to light. Perhaps the answer is to convert the building outlines to .osm files at this stage. I would be interested in using this where I live. It is also worth making notes of where we do not want to import buildings from StreetView because it is out of date or there are better sources. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
