[HOT] Squared buildings

[john whelan]

>We care that they reflect the structure on the ground. I've mapped many
buildings that are not square. But if we are sending people into the field
to deliver aid looking for a triangle like building when the actual
building is a rectangle, we've wasted their time.

So your suggestion on how to deal with the existing poorly mapped buildings
would be?

Thanks John

On 14 April 2016 at 17:50, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:28 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is a data quality issue but do we even care if they are unsquared or
>> not?
>>
>
> We care that they reflect the structure on the ground. I've mapped many
> buildings that are not square. But if we are sending people into the field
> to deliver aid looking for a triangle like building when the actual
> building is a rectangle, we've wasted their time.
>
>
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