My personal view is I map to provide a useful map.
I've talked to a number of blind people and buildings with house numbers
are extremely useful to them. There are others who find them useful.
If you talk to the NGOs using OSM in Africa or other places remote
mapping and imports are unfortunately essential. Should we wait for the
locals to become educated enough and have the money to buy internet
access and computers so they can map their own village?
Unfortunately the world isn't simple. In parts of the world urban
planing comes down to how many buildings are there on the map multiply
that by a factor to give a population estimate and that's how many
classrooms we need.
Even in parts of Canada especially the remote ones urban planning really
does come down to what is on the map. Fortunately there is now open
data correctly licensed for OSM building data available from Stat Can,
NR Can, and Microsoft. Whether or not the local urban planners of a
remote community are capable of combining multiple sources of data is
questionable.
Easing people into OSM, well street complete makes adding detail to
existing building outlines easy to do and we have had issues with data
quality for new mappers adding building outlines.
Cheerio John
Nate Wessel wrote on 4/30/2019 10:06 AM:
If we show new members of this OSM community that big things get done
through (sometimes contentious) imports, then that is how new
contributors are likely to engage with the project. If we instead
demonstrate that a lot can be accomplished by individuals mapping the
areas they know personally, then perhaps that is the outcome we will
see more of.
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