Hi, On 02.07.2018 10:24, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > churning out buildings like demented stonemasons trying to reach their weekly > quota > of gamified task-managing !
I recently stumbled upon https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-6.8958/39.1623 (Tanzania) and had a similar thought. The buildings there are at least square and largely match aerial imagery, but this, too, looked like supercharged one-trick-pony image tracing combined with very little on the ground knowledge (e.g. quite a few roads and tracks clearly visible on the imagery are not traced, and from someone local you'd expect the occasional POI or label). Someone must have buildings very high on their priority list (don't even know if HOT are involved but it certainly doesn't look like local mapping). It will be interesting to learn why buildings are so important. Or are they just the lowest-hanging image tracing fruit, or just easier to count? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
