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

2017-05-25 Thread john whelan
>So to summarize my overall points. Mapping as a node is not wrong, but I would rather see someone spend an hour mapping a few hundred buildings as areas rather than a few thousand as nodes, since the nodes will have to be mapped as areas eventually anyway. So as far as I see it it is just a

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

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Buck
As you say, you looked on the wiki and it does list building nodes as acceptable. Mapping them this way is not wrong, it is just far from optimal. Regarding the plugins for josm, I don't know that either of these are really needed. Residential areas as convex hulls can be easily made in qgis

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

2017-05-25 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi all, so I don't want to revisit the whole discussion, but here's my view. This isn't a suggestion to change the HOT-default of mapping buildings as way, but just to explain my approach. I've recently mapped about 2,000 node-buildings near Fiwila, Northern Zambia. I checked the OSM wiki, it

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

2017-05-25 Thread john whelan
> Buildings as nodes is not a recognized way of mapping them that has broad support. Almost without exception the only people doing this are newbie HOT mappers who don't know the correct procedure. So this is a mistake that should be fixed, just like non-square buildings or unconnected roads. I

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

2017-05-25 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
​Absolutely agree with you Andrew. Support for building tag on nodes should be dropped by now. ​ Best, - Enock 2017-05-25 15:08 GMT+00:00 Andrew Buck : > The real solution is to "upgrade" these nodes into properly mapped > buildings with a way. We really should be

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

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Buck
The real solution is to "upgrade" these nodes into properly mapped buildings with a way. We really should be discouraging people mapping as nodes like this as it is largely a waste of time since someone has to map it as a way later on anyway and when they do they either need to delete the

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

2017-05-25 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi all, just to follow up on the buildings discussion - it seems that it's not likely that node-buildings will be rendered in the standard cartography, see https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/806. However, I think there is a case for rendering node-buildings in the HOT