https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=arthur%20mark%20drive%20port%20hope%20ontario#map=17/43.96262/-78.27069
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.9631101,-78.2732195,17.25z https://www.bing.com/maps?FORM=Z9LH3 Port Hope Ontario is relatively obscure yet both Bing and google have buildings and neither company would spend the money dropping them in unless they saw a demand. A small sample but I'm sure that others are quite capable of looking locally for themselves. I'm a shades of grey person so to me there is no absolute need to have buildings in OpenStreetMap and I think different end users have different expectations. I seem to recall osmand has a street only map which takes up less room on the device. It's perfectly adequate for some users. I can make a case for both having them and not having any. On the not having any way up there would be the buildings added by inexperienced mappers using iD often in HOT projects. There are duplicates, strange shapes that bare no relation to any imagery, and city blocks marked as a single building. On the having them side would be where can I get a coffee and wifi? There are many users of the map who would like to see buildings or more importantly have building information available in an electronic form. For Ottawa I think I can safely say the local mappers are happy with the imported buildings. In OpenStreetMap there will always be a range of points of view. As you say it is for the local mappers to decide what they would like to do. In this case is it difficult to define the local mappers. Cheerio John
_______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
