[Talk-GB] importing house shapes

[Ed Loach]

Matt wrote:
 
> I actually do that in reverse. I first trace all the houses in an
area
> from Bing and then when I'm out surveying (using either a printed
> map
> or tablet) I'll use those outlines to match against reality.
Either
> way, I'm very much into adding addressing information these days
> and I
> encourage more people to start adding it.

I used to do it that way round, but found I was pre-tracing more
houses than I got the chance to survey; there are still a couple of
patches I want to get back to to resolve that. I find
http://os.osm.org used for printouts (at z17, page1, landscape from
Firefox rather than Opera - so full page) allows me to use it a bit
like walking papers, then I can trace from Bing when I get home
adding the details I noted while out.

Ed