[OSM-newbies] Neighborhood detail

[James Ewen]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Johnson
<earthstephen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> One thing I have started that I am not sure of is adding building
> outlines for all the houses for which that is possible based on the Bing
> Satellite images. I have looked around in some larger cities (not an
> extensive search though) and haven't seen any buildings outlined in
> residential neighborhood only in more commercial districts. Is there some
> reason I should not do this? Maybe it hasn't been done because it doesn't
> add much useful information but is labor intensive? It is a bit tedious but
> I figured if everyone just did their own neighborhood, large areas could be
> done. Any thoughts?

If you look hard enough, you'll find whole residential areas with
every building outline entered. I ran into a place like that a couple
years ago.

It just shows that some people really have a lot of attention to
detail, and patience.

OSM is a collaborative project where you can enter as much detail as you want.

A user in my local area entered lot outlines and building outlines in
what is presumably is their neighborhood.

http://osm.org/go/WPoq5qQK

As you can see however, the attention to detail was seriously lacking.
Each lot is unique, with gaps between the lots, rather than sharing a
common border, and the building outlines are rarely even close to
where they should be.

Every time I look at this, it irks me because of the lack of accuracy.
One day I will get in there and correct it, but I haven't hit that
threshold yet.

-- 
James
VE6SRV