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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/09/19 20:55, Andy Townsend wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/09/2019 11:15, Jez Nicholson
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Some people seem quite animated about non-squared
buildings in OSM....can anyone tell me why it matters so much?
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<p>A possible (slightly contentious) view might be that:<br>
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<li>some people have been complaining about the quality of HOT
additions - sometimes unfounded, because it's more a "new
user" thing than a "HOT" thing per se.</li>
<li>one of the complaints - perhaps because it's an "easy to
find" problem - is unsquared (or unrounded) buildings</li>
<li>HOT therefore make a big deal about squaring buildings</li>
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<p>I've never been hugely bothered by it personally - people can
easily square them up later if that's appropriate.</p>
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My 1970s home is not that square, very annoying doing home
renovations. On the other hand the 1910 terrace house is dead
square! (It is just the council there that is stupidly irregular.)<br>
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HOT can train there new mappers better... people who join OSM from
the crowd are without that benefit.<br>
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Does it matter? It does make the map 'look' better, giving more
confidence to the end user thus improving OSMs reputation so .. to
me .. yes it matters. <br>
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