<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/12/30 Steve Bennett <<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> That's pretty impressive stuff. One "random map" that came up:<br>
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> <a href="http://maposmatic.org/rendered//004922_2009-12-28_08-34_GrenobleIsreRhneAlpesFrance.png" target="_blank">http://maposmatic.org/rendered//004922_2009-12-28_08-34_GrenobleIsreRhneAlpesFrance.png</a><br>
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> I used to live right on the eastern edge of that map. Can't help but wonder<br>
> if Australian cities will ever have that level of detail...<br>
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</div></div>It's possible to get that level of detail anywhere in the world as<br>
long as there is hi-res imagery for it, the biggest thing we lack is<br>
human resources with enough time and skills to map things to that<br>
degree. I was attempting to get Carnarvon to that level as a show<br>
case, ie small area and to some extent we suceeded.<br>
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<a href="http://maposmatic.org/rendered//004989_2009-12-30_08-03_CarnarvonWA.png" target="_blank">http://maposmatic.org/rendered//004989_2009-12-30_08-03_CarnarvonWA.png</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Hmm. Looking at this I'm wondering if it makes as much sense to map the shape of private houses. In the French examples, these are apartment buildings, and the shape seems somehow more important. But doing every house?<br>
<br>And the question is...if we decide we don't want to map every house, what buildings should we map? I've been tending to do buildings in commercial districts, parks, and some industrial precincts (huge warehouses and sheds seem particularly worth doing). But the effort in mapping every house in a city the size of Melbourne seems out of proportion to the value in doing so.<br>
<br>Steve<br>