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minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·17 hours agoIt reaaaaaaally depends on how active people are in the area You can have one city with every pavement stone mapped and the town over just be “yup, there’s a street here”
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 hours agoUK also has ordnance survey maps that are just the best maps. Found out our local library has a shit load of them too. But it probably helps OSM a lot more too if you used them as a source.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoLots of communities use official mappings, actually. But some places put them under a license that can’t be used for OSM Germany had a case somewhat recently where a bunch of stuff had to be reverted, because the licence wasn’t clear enough
It reaaaaaaally depends on how active people are in the area
You can have one city with every pavement stone mapped and the town over just be “yup, there’s a street here”
UK also has ordnance survey maps that are just the best maps. Found out our local library has a shit load of them too. But it probably helps OSM a lot more too if you used them as a source.
Lots of communities use official mappings, actually. But some places put them under a license that can’t be used for OSM
Germany had a case somewhat recently where a bunch of stuff had to be reverted, because the licence wasn’t clear enough