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</head><body text="#000000">You can get a lot of information from just
the buildings existance.<br>
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If you have no census information then at least you can estimate how
many people live in an area from the number of buildings. Useful for
getting vaccines to the right place, how many schools do we need etc.<br>
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The other thing is smartphone mappers can add tags to buildings that
exist is easy but mapping a building is more complex with a low end
smartphone.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Emerson Rocha via osmf-talk wrote on 5/13/2023 4:19 PM:</span><br>
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cite="mid:CA+pb=JNhqQncXOde_bXjPBc1R-B=+KR5k4KPK9iuJ6pS0K8_xg@mail.gmail.com">Truth
to be told, generic building=yes already add almost no information
at all to the map relevant for data users, so at least render then
differently (or not render at all) would disencourage low quality
armchair mapping (generic buildings for aerial imagery still useful if
later there's plan to survey the places with phone apps, but would
become far less rewarding for others). And yes, I'm somewhat surprised
that not just the mappers, but mapaton organizers, don't know that OSM
is more than the renderized version, but the metadata.</blockquote>
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