[OSM-talk-ie] Estimate of number of building=* in Ireland

[Andy Townsend]

On 15/05/2020 03:37, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-ie wrote:
> May 15, 2020, 00:04 by davecorley at gmail.com:
>
>> The logical approach should be to map it as house/garage/shed etc and ONLY
>> use building=yes if you cannot make an educated guess.
>>
>> Doing otherwise puts this data on the level of the tiger import.
>>
> No. TIGER import had plenty of outright invalid, incorrect and insane data.
> This is merely missing not very important part of info.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:TIGER_fixup_example_before.jpg
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Braided-streets-example.jpg
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup

+1 to that.

Sometimes people forgot just how piss-poor some of the imported TIGER 
data was.  To be fair, it was a lifetime ago in OSM terms.

Best Regards,

Andy

(not a local but an occasional visitor - next visit was due to be in a 
couple of weeks but alas now postponed)