Dear all,
The State of the Map Asia 2017 working group is pleased to announce a call
for logo designs. We need your help to build a strong recognisable logo for
State of the Map Asia 2017 (SotM Asia) conference taking place in
Kathmandu, Nepal. The conference is OpenStreetMap’s annual gathering
>Surely population density could be accessed more accurately by numbers of
buildings than by sizes of "blobs", which are outlines very inconsistently ?
I've seen people take the square area of all the buildings and apply a
formula to it that includes the number of storeys. Not as good as a
Hi, I was also bothered by the coexistence of very small and very large residential area in many loosely populated African areas.
I agree that the tag seems to make most sense in densely built-up areas - to differentiate it from other uses of built-up land, not from open areas.
But I'm not
> I already saw people replacing the landuse=residential tag by place=town
over a precise urban area for some towns in Africa what I think is
basically wrong because these places are generally larger than the
residential area.
I must confess I normally just add a landuse=residential to these.
Hi,
landuse=residential shows an urban or housing sprawl and therefore can
cross various existing boundaries. boundary=* is related to an official or
existing boundary and in the case of a village, it will encompass not only
one residential area, but sometimes several and other kinds of landuses
Greetings all,
There will be a meeting with the Project Manager and the TM3
developers to discuss the needs for the Tasking Manager 3.0 API.
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the needs the community has
for API based functionality and getting data out of the Tasking
Manager via an API
It
Thomas, thank you for the thoughts.
I have looked at the building=farm and landuse=farmyard and believe they do
not apply in here in Ethiopia.A building that is a dwelling should not be
tagged as "farm". It is not possible to determine the use of a building
from aerial imagery. Last week I was in
First, overlapping landuse areas (even different ones) should *always* be
corrected. It brings problems with the map data, I have seen and corrected
areas where the overlapping did hide ponds from the rendered map. The *same*
overlapping area masks some of the problems but should be corrected as
Nick & John,
Determining where to draw the edge of landuse=residential can be difficult.
Here in Ethiopia most of the population lives in a rural setting where they
farm areas of 1 to 10 hectares in size.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/6.9634/38.4408
There are places where people live in
