[HOT] Settlements in Sudan

[John Whelan]

I'm playing in Sudan at the moment and noticed some settlements 
surrounded by irrigated fields are quite densely populated with 
buildings, probably houses.

An example is:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7730428822#map=15/14.2299/33.3687

I've also noticed one or two of these settlements have had their 
buildings mapped in a HOT task manager project.

You can make an estimate of population from the number of buildings. 
However if you take the number of buildings in a given settlement in 
this area and divide by the area of the settlement, most are square then 
you can take the area of another similar settlement of the same density 
and extrapolate the number of buildings.  Not quite as accurate as 
having all the buildings accurately mapped but certainly fairly close.

Can anyone suggest a tag to add to the landuse=residential that might 
indicate the building density?  It might save mapping a few settlements 
for buildings.

Cheerio John


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