Christoph Hormann 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.
The core principle you're looking for is that OSM is iterative. We iterate towards completion. Start simple, become detailed. Back in the day, we used big swathes of landuse= to mark residential areas, and abutters= to indicate shops beside roads. You and I are fortunate enough to live in OSM-rich countries where all the important stuff has now been mapped and people can concentrate on unimportant fripperies like building outlines and addresses. By definition, HOT activities aren't in such countries. It's absolutely reasonable to start with approximations and replace them over time - that's what we were doing in the UK when the map was at a similar state of development to these places. Call it a Minimum Viable Map. Let's have a bit less judgement, and a bit more helping newbie mappers (and their organisers, who may not have as long-standing an OSM background as you) to do things well. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/A-message-to-our-friends-at-HOT-Peace-Corps-etc-about-Changeset-Comments-tp5860424p5860499.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
