OpenStreetMap
Phew! It's hard work tracing houses. Even worse, one can spend hours tracing a few roads-worth of houses and then you zoom out and it all seems insignificant!
Every little helps though. It makes the map look nice and thorough and at least it makes collecting house numbers easier.
Discussion
Comment from IknowJoseph on 28 August 2009 at 14:41
Looks awesome :)
I've done a lot of tracing in that part of the world too!
Cheers, Joseph
Comment from Milliams on 28 August 2009 at 15:19
Thanks :)
I've seen your edits - particularly with the fields. Good work.
The problem with houses is that you've kinda got to know the area on account of the Yahoo! imagery being quite fuzzy.
Matt
Comment from marscot on 28 August 2009 at 21:14
looks good I have been adding house numbers too, but not sold on the use of addr:housenumber for shops and garages ect, it really should have been addr:number or addr:pointnumber , but using addr:housenumber for now :)
Comment from Minh Nguyen on 29 August 2009 at 06:58
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a Magic Wand tool in Potlatch, with a tolerance setting, like the one in Photoshop or the GIMP? Then you could just click on a bright spot and Potlatch would find the building’s sides. One can dream…
Comment from Milliams on 29 August 2009 at 10:35
@Minh Nguyen: That sort of sounds like the Lakewalker plugin in JOSM (I think). However, with most of these houses the resolution isn't good enough for a computer algorithm to resolve. Fortunately humans are good at pattern matching :)
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