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

[Vladimir Vyskocil]

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> 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 :(
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> 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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Yes it's the actual situation, it is like some other big imports : TIGER, PGS coastline,..., it's a work in progress and the community is improving things, it's OpenStreetMap !
I think OSM is better with this data in than without.

Vlad.