[Talk-GB] Barking/Becontree/Redbridge/Dagenham

[Tom Hughes]

On 19/02/2024 21:18, Kai Michael Poppe wrote:

> I'm not on a local accent and it therefore is almost one of my business, 
> but can anyone reasonably describe what happened to the building 
> coverage in the above mentioned London-ish areas out in the East?

Do you have some reason to believe they once existed?

> Did they not make the license transition over a decade ago? It looks 
> rather strange seeing hundreds of streets that have names and follow 
> aerial imagery but without any houses...

I mean it's not unusual to have roads but for houses not to
have been added yet? I did all the roads round me long before
any of the houses...

> I'm not (and cannot) volunteering to draw them back on the map, but 
> helluva curious what happened and if we have any means nowadays to fix 
> this without months of manual labour :-]

Not if you want a high quality result, no. Crowd sourcing is
what OSM is all about.

Tom

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