[Osmf-talk] Alternative Strategic Plan

[John Whelan]

You can get a lot of information from just the buildings existance.

If you have no census information then at least you can estimate how 
many people live in an area from the number of buildings.  Useful for 
getting vaccines to the right place, how many schools do we need etc.

The other thing is smartphone mappers can add tags to buildings that 
exist is easy but mapping a building is more complex with a low end 
smartphone.

Cheerio John

Emerson Rocha via osmf-talk wrote on 5/13/2023 4:19 PM:
> Truth to be told, generic building=yes already add almost no 
> information at all to the map relevant for data users, so at least 
> render then differently (or not render at all) would disencourage low 
> quality armchair mapping (generic buildings for aerial imagery still 
> useful if later there's plan to survey the places with phone apps, but 
> would become far less rewarding for others). And yes, I'm somewhat 
> surprised that not just the mappers, but mapaton organizers, don't 
> know that OSM is more than the renderized version, but the metadata.

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