Thank you! Will keep publishing :) On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:56 PM Sérgio V. <svo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Excelent and inteligent initiative Darafei. > Measuring "density of OSM data" per "Population density" is a powerful > metric to analyse where is it lacking more mapping in OSM. > It's a nice effort to minimize "inequality" in OSM map. > (for more info, see "World Inequality Database" at https://wid.world/world > ) > > I've did that metric for Brazil in 2017, "Demography in Brazil to help > mapping in OSM", at: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Demografia_do_Brasil_como_auxiliar_no_OSM > It helped me much to find places lacking mapping. > Everytime I just take a fast look at the highlighted places int that map, > I've actualy found undermapped places, lacking roads mostly. > > These metrics lead to view two aspects: > a) By one hand, the world is in a fast urbanizing process. People more and > more migrate to bigger cities, looking for better jobs, services, better > life. > According to United Nations report, "68% (2/3) of the world population > projected to live in urban areas by 2050" (UN 2018-05-16 - > https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html > ). > So, it's generally expected to have a lot of irregular setlements to map > in broader urban areas. Even benig irregular, millions of people live in > such places. > b) By the other hand, people remaining in country sides become more alone > (many times old people), living far away from good public services and > enough incomes, broadly unassisted. So also important to map their > accessibility. > > Don't matter with objections for too much fine precision on demography. > That metric anyway gives much more reasonable focus than usual > over&under-concentrated mapping done in OSM. > Nice, keep going, publish it. > Regards > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Sérgio - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/smaprs > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Darafei Praliaskouski Support me: http://patreon.com/komzpa
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