Spent a long day visiting in the Maybury area of Woking. Before going to the pub, I wandered around a few streets and noted addresses and peculiarities. Though some areas of Woking have had houses added, I could find little evidence of addresses. There also did not seem to be any recent local ‘heavy mappers’… In my opinion, it is better to add buildings as approximate shapes with addresses, rather than to spend time drawing the precise shape of each. We are not town planners and, I suspect, that one of the main uses of OSM is for finding location, not for discovering who has a curved bay and who has a sun-lounge, or garden shed??? My general approach is to draw the residential building: if detached house then add address; if semis then draw two attached houses; if more multi then decide between terrace, apartment, or just ‘residential building’ and add address points using interpolation lines where survey or evidence is vague. What more does the User want?
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