<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 5, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Tom Pfeifer <<a href="mailto:t.pfeifer@computer.org" class="">t.pfeifer@computer.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">+1. Drawing a residential around a village was the early attempt with low-res</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">aerial images. With the level of detail you get from both 20cm imagery and</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">open-data property boundaries, my preferred level of granularity is up to a</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">block, i.e. the landuse surrounded by residential roads (but not glued to them).</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">+1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yea, there are some easily defined planned residential neighborhoods in Japan - but honestly there are very few of them, especially compared to the US where there is pretty strict zoning in the suburbs - vs no zoning whatsoever in suburban/rural Japan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really like adding the landuses sub-block by sub-block, and in many cases plot to plot, because the imagery was good enough to do it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it is also a ton easier than drawing all the houses - as the houses in Japan are 1/2 size and crammed very close to one another, so tracing them is very tedious. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Getting the basic landuses + parks in between the residential roads really adds detail to the map with little effort. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.43462/139.04558" class="">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/36.43462/139.04558</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>