> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/330511654#map=16/20.5184/-13.0507 > > But you really need to zoom in using JOSM to see the problem. > > The best way to describe it is the road network is a grid but each block of > buildings has been mapped as a single building rather than the six to a > dozen separate buildings that are there and I'm not sure what to do. It's > not just in Atar and there are a large number of them. I've seen something > similar by HOT mappers before but not on this scale. > > One mapper has a thousand untagged ways in Mauritania most of which are of > this type.
I would go slow on this. I looked out of curiosity a bit closer, and it looks as if the mappers involved use a gruadual approach: they first outline groups of buildings and tag it as a single building or religious or hospital. At a later stage they (plan to) add details to each of these groups by adding individual building outlines and footpaths connecting them to the roads. One could have done this with a different approach using landuse=residential|religious|... , but I would not interfere with the local community's approach without dialogue. It looks as there is at least one experienced mapper involved in many of these changesets: Cheibany, <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cheibany> He has a background in urban planning according to his OSM user page. I would be surprised if you could not communicate with him. Volker Italy
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