[OSM-dev] OSM based replacement for builtup_area.shp in standard style

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 06/03/2014 07:52 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> As a sidenote I wanted to point out that there are currently already
> 281547 ways (I suspect most of them to represent areas) tagged with
> place=* (not much compared to a total of 3.1M places in OSM) which could
> serve as an alternative to your (preprocessing intensive) process if
> more mappers could be convinced for this concept of mapping settlement
> extensions.

I doubt that; I think people are adding place=* to boundary relations
and it has nothing to do with actual built-up area, e.g.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62496
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62400

Bye
Frederik

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