[HOT] Squared buildings

Dale Kunce dale.kunce at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 15:55:13 UTC 2016


+1 Mike. The need to draw square buildings is really a check to have new
mappers draw more *accurate* buildings.


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:11 AM, <me at chrisfleming.org> wrote:
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>> Are non squared building really a big deal, apart from visually? Can we
>> not live at least initially with building as traced?
>>
> If the angles are 90+/- some little bit I don't think it would matter.
> The problem is that once you remove the requirement for squaring some
> (usually very new) mappers will draw grossly distorted buildings.  These
> are so visually unappealing as to reduce the usefulness and trustworthiness
>  of the map IMHO.
>
>  Mike
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