[Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

[Shaun McDonald]

On 30 Apr 2014, at 09:52, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom wrote:
> 
>> In many other areas of inner London, particularly residential (e.g. http://binged.it/1iByiPy), 
>> the typologies and shapes are pretty easy to understand from aerial imagery so you 
>> can accurately guess individual buildings.
> 
> Perhaps it is just me, but I don’t think residential buildings without addresses are worth adding to OSM, and you can’t get addresses without a survey (or spot the odd business that may be hidden amongst them).

I’d be quite happy for someone to trace buildings, and all I had to do was update the house numbers, as the buildings are so hard to draw when on the ground. I often use Vespucci for editing on the ground, thus don’t need to spend ages once I get home editing.

Shaun