[OSM-newbies] Neighborhood detail

[Clifford Snow]

Check out Mercer Island, wa.  It's impressive.
 On Jul 10, 2012 1:36 PM, "Stephen Johnson" <earthstephen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I thought it would be a good start in OSM to improve the mapping of my own
> neighborhood. I have worked on the road alighnmets, adding bridges etc. I
> also started adding addresses. I am pretty sure these are all good things
> to do. 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?
>
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