[Talk-gb-midanglia] Cambridge projects: houses and shops

[Mark Williamson]

> > This was also me.  It was a fairly time consuming session over the Yahoo
> > imagery so I haven't gotten around to doing more yet.  I fully expect
> > that more will come, especially on these long winter nights.  Most of the
> > buildings I've so far done are terrace blocks.
>
> I notice they look skewed on makpnik: are you using JOSM and is your
> projection set to Mercator?

Ah, setting it to Mercator made the whole process much easier, thanks :-)

I'm going over the ways realigning them and using the rectangle align tool to 
make sure the edges are parallel.

> > I think it's data worth having since it's fairly easy (though time
> > consuming) to derive and can help with orientation.
>
> Sure. It was the rendering that was bothering me.
>
> I definitely think they should be building=house (or residential or
> houses I suppose, as they might be more than one, but house would be
> fine IMO), not just building=yes

I'm switching to using building=house for now, including for terraces.  When 
the decisions are taken regarding rendering, hopefully that'll be sufficient to 
sort things out.  I certainly agree that it would be better to render housing 
differently to major buildings, and / or perhaps only at high zoom levels where 
it's more likely to be interesting / useful.

Cheers,
Mark

> Steve (Chilton), what do you think? Maybe building=house could be like
> landuse=residential but a tad darker, rather than like other buildings.
>
> David