Hi
Welcome to OSM.
Mapping new developments is trickier without aerial imagery, but there's
quite a bit you can do to make it more accurate than guesswork.
* if you're mapping the roads use the GPS to walk down their centre,
if it's safe to do so, of course)
* Takes *lots* of photos. Videos are even better
* If there is something already mapped in OSM Field Papers may help:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Field_Papers
* I found that many new estates have a certain amount of conformity.
Try offsetting a copy of the road centre lines to use as guidelines
ensuring buildings equidistant from the road & the same width
To map larger buildings you can walk walk around it taking waypoints
with a GPS whenever you're in line with the plane of a building's side.
These points can then have a way drawn with their opposite number to
create the buildings outline. Make sure you're far enough away from it
to avoid GPS interference.
Cheers
DaveF
On 08/03/2019 10:35, Dave Abbott wrote:
Hi,
I'm quite new to OSM, and am wondering how I might go about mapping new
housing plots in my area.
In general, there is nothing on the imagery - I know I can walk the new
streets and map them with GPS - but how to go about mapping the new
buildings?
Is there a guide I can look at?
TIA,
Dave Abbott
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