[HOT] "connecting" buildings

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Mike,

It is really generally true, but in dense urban areas often the 
buildings do share a wall. Hopefully we can get some feedback from the 
folks in Dar as to what is typical in that environment.

One of the things that make dense urban mapping a challenge.

Cheers,
Blake


On 3/8/2016 6:20 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
> I think I found my answer, it was in the instructions for a different
> project (http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1537):
> "Many buildings are very close, but do not actually touch each other,
> try to map them close to each other without letting them connect or
> share nodes with each other, roads or residential area outlines."
>
> I had the wrong project, but should the above guidance to almost all
> projects?
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com
> <mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am refining my training for tomorrow's humanitarian mapathon at
>     the University of Wyoming where we will be mapping in Dar es Salaam
>     (#1446).  I recall reading somewhere that we shouldn't "connect"
>     buildings (i.e. two buildings sharing one or more nodes) unless we
>     are certain that they are connected in reality (since we are doing
>     armchair mapping, we would seldom know this). This makes sense to
>     me, but I want to sure this is the official guidance (and be able to
>     cite that guidance).  Can anyone point me to where that is documented?
>
>     Mike
>
>
>
>
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