[OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

[Lester Caine]

Vladimir Vyskocil wrote:
> I don't agree  the cadastre is ugly once rendered ! A rendered map like this for example, is in my opinion something more pleasant than a map with only a house once and there with large holes :
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.70272&lon=7.26654&zoom=15&layers=Q
>
> This data is also beautifully used by the community behind 3D rendered map used in X-Plane flight simulator. 3D maps is something on the rise and detailed buildings are needed for this !

There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the 
world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL 
needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of 
mappers and how to get the best out of the material available. In hindsight I 
think there is some agreement that perhaps the data should not have been made 
'generally' available and that mappers were monitored a little more as to their 
use of the data? The horse has bolted now, so tools to clean up are now needed :(

In SOME areas the cadastre is ugly with several strange shaped blocks sort of 
grouped together vaguely around the location of a clean square building on the 
imagery ... that is what is irritating ...

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