[HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

[Pete Masters]

Thanks Joost, that's really good to know. I'll continue as you suggest...

Pete

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:57 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I somehow missed looking at the main building wiki page, focusing on the
> subarticles. As Blake rightly pointed out at the tagging list:
>
> "In addition outlines can either be simplified shapes or very detailed
> outlines which conform accurately to the shape of the building. It is not
> uncommon for buildings to initially be described as simple group outlines
> later be improved with more detailed outlines and to be split into
> individual properties."
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buildings
>
> This seemed to be majority opinion at tagging too: it is OK to trace a
> rough building outline. But preferably not because the mapper has no time
> (in that case, just map the residential area), only if it is really hard to
> tell where one building stops and the other starts.
>
> One reason to avoid as much as possible is that several data consumers
> (optimistically) assume one building polygon means one actual building.
>
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