Re: [HOT] Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

2017-05-19 Thread Cascafico Giovanni
AFAIK Osmand renders addr: housenumber also for polygons [1]. Anyway I agree to the general rule that rendering has to adhere to mapping (and not VS). [1] cascafico.altervista.org/public/Screenshot_2017-05-19-18-40-41.png ___ HOT mailing list

[HOT] Experienced road network mappers - Salima District, Malawi

2017-05-19 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi All, We have set up two small projects to map the road network in Salima District, Malawi, to support UNICEF projects working on the ground. UNICEF are finding it difficult to work in the region without an accurate road network map, as navigation and deliveries for all their projects is

Re: [HOT] Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

2017-05-19 Thread john whelan
OpenStreetMap and HOT conventions are slightly different. In OpenStreetMap a much wider range of mapping conventions are used and it is quite acceptable for a building to be mapped as a node or outline, in HOT the convention is to map it in outline. If the buildings are mapped accurately then

Re: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

2017-05-19 Thread Martin Noblecourt
Dear all, Just to complete what Ralph said, my colleague who routinely produce maps from OSM data doesn't consider this a priority issue, they just ignore the forest landuse data when preparing their map then (although as cartographer, they would of course enjoy have more data to make their

[HOT] weeklyOSM #356 2017-05-09-2017-05-15

2017-05-19 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 356, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/9068/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

[HOT] Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

2017-05-19 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Dear all, I've got a few questions about buildings and residential areas. Here's the first one. Can buildings be entered as nodes? This may well have been discussed before :) but I'd like to understand the situation better. On the one hand, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building