[OSM-talk] Odd mapping in Atar Mauritania

[john whelan]

> People want to introduce new stuff.
'Nobody' corrects old stuff. (Or more correctly few improve old stuff ...
like sport=football.)

As a validator I spend most of my time fixing things.  If a HOT mapper has
been mapping for a day and draws a motorway between two small villages two
kilometers apart after checking the imagery you can make a reasonable guess
that it may not be correct.

In this case there are more than 10,000 untagged ways by one mapper and
around 14,500 groups of buildings tagged as a building by another.  Not
only that but some where originally tagged as landuse=residential.  Problem
is I can see tall buildings in a downtown center core here which are
probably offices.  Without boots on the ground what do you tag them?  They
aren't all residential almost certainly.

Adjusting a group of buildings tagged building=yes to a single building is
a possibility but for more than 25,000 ways?  Remembering its faster to
redraw them with the JOSM plugin building_tool.  I'm not that dedicated.

Cheerio John

On 8 November 2017 at 20:21, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09-Nov-17 07:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> On 8. Nov 2017, at 18:47, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is certainly how the centre of London got mapped, and many other
> places too I suspect
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> we still have some of them lingering around in the middle of the center
> and nobody seems to see it as priority ;-)
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> People want to introduce new stuff.
> 'Nobody' corrects old stuff. (Or more correctly few improve old stuff ...
> like sport=football.)
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