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Excelent and inteligent initiative Darafei<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></div>
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Measuring "density of OSM data" per "Population density" is a powerful metric to analyse where is it lacking more mapping in OSM. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's a nice effort to minimize "inequality" in OSM map. </span></div>
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(for more info, see "World Inequality Database" at <a href="https://wid.world/world" id="LPlnk494707">https://wid.world/world</a>)</div>
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I've did that metric for Brazil in 2017, <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
"Demography in Brazil to help mapping in OSM", </span>at:</div>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Demografia_do_Brasil_como_auxiliar_no_OSM" id="LPNoLP277410">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Demografia_do_Brasil_como_auxiliar_no_OSM</a><br>
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It helped <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
me<span> </span></span>much to find places lacking mapping. </div>
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Everytime I just take a fast look at the highlighted places int that map, I've actualy found undermapped places, lacking roads mostly.</div>
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These metrics lead to view two aspects: </div>
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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. </div>
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A<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ccording to United Nations report,
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"68% (2/3) of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050" (UN 2018-05-16 -
</span><a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html" id="LPNoLP473212" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">).</span></div>
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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. </div>
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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 <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">unassisted</span>.
So also important to map their accessibility.</div>
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Don't matter with <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
objections for </span>too much fine precision on demography. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">That metric anyway gives much more reasonable focus than usual over&under-concentrated mapping done in OSM. </span></div>
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Nice, keep going, publish it.</div>
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Regards</div>
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