On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2015, Kate Chapman wrote: > > > And if on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1300 i read: > > "Please draw one large area outline around groups of buildings and tag > them landuse=residential" > > that is in violation of one of the core principles of OSM, namely to map > reality, what's on the ground. It instructs mappers to map something > that does not exist in reality based on abstract geometric > considerations and to give it a tag that is meant for something > different. > > Referring to > landuse=residential is a globally used tag, so you can hardly call out HOT for using it. http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=residential#map > > > Do we not have the same goal of a free map of the entire world? > > if instructions like the above indeed describe the aims of HOT for > mapping its vision of a free map of the entire world is indeed very > different from mine. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ >
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