Not necessarily. Urban blind people probably want to know where there's likely to be a wall.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gregory <[email protected]> writes: > > > Why do you want to see outlines autogenerated from aerial imagery, you > > could just look at the aerial imagery? > > That's not true. For example, when converting to garmin format, > buildings render with very few bits, and let you know developed vs > undeveloped areas. Imagery is too big to carry around (and I don't > think bing lets people download for offline use), and too detailed to > look at while driving. > > This could be an urban vs rural thing. Cities are basically full of > buildings, and any non-building area is notable and worthy of denoting > on the map. In semi-rural or rural areas, there are large chunks of > just forest (sometimes with roads), and it's there that I find knowing > where buildings are to be very useful. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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