[Talk-GB] newbie questions about building outlines

[Dan S]

2014-04-30 9:52 GMT+01:00 Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com>:
> 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).

While building outlines are not particularly interesting in
themselves, I've been surprised when doing address surveying that it
makes a massive difference to the task: having outlines to work to
(and occasionally, to fix) really speeds up my address surveying. So
like others have said, I now try to get buildings sketched in from
aerials beforehand.

Dan