[Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

[Derick Rethans]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2014, Shaun McDonald wrote:

> 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 agree.

> 
> 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.

I usually trace them before I go out. But I will only trace them if I 
have an active plan of checking them out (and their addresses).

cheers,
Derick