[Tagging] Quick Building tracing question...

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 03:21:54 UTC 2019


On 10/01/19 13:54, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 12:43, John Willis <johnw at mac.com 
> <mailto:johnw at mac.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am tracing and repairing existing traces of warehouses in an
>     industrial district.
>
>
> I've recently been doing the same, John.
>
>     if I am mapping this kind of warehouses, which should I:
>
>     - map the whole structure as a warehouse
>
>
> I've just traced what I can see as the visible roof area &  called it 
> "building", as it's impossible to tell from an overhead image what is 
> enclosed building & what is only a roof over an open area?
>
> If you had street-level imagery that may change things?

As Graeme says - you cannot tell from satellite imagery.

building=yes on the whole lot of it. Maybe add a "note=warehouse? and 
part building=roof, layer=1"?

>
>     I am going to spend the time cleaning up UltimaSnorlax’s bad
>     polygons, I might a well draw them correctly the first time.
>
>
> Yep! :-)
Or try to get UltimaSnorlax to fix them?



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