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Do you manually add houses? My whole city needs building mapping but idk if it can be automated.
Well, I am also a "newbie" for OSM. But for building outline mapping it's done on OSM editors, not with the StreetComplete app. So not sure if this can be automated. Most work is done manually, I believe. If you check out https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ you will see how people are mapping their neighbourhood manually, too! - Yes, such a crazy community this is!
@Vroomfondel There are some automatically extracted building outlines on RapiD, but they aren't great.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rapid
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@Vroomfondel @Eyck_of_denesle Automated building drawing is totally possible and done. It requires an admissible (quality and license wise) source of data and a piece of software. The OSM Belgium documented the tool and process for the Belgian sources of building shapes: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject/_Belgium/Building/_and/_address/_import. Notice there are rules to automated imports: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import.
"Oi, mate! Duh you have a loicence?" - Unfortunately, no official, licenced data on hand. But a great project, indeed! Thanks for the info. Will keep it in mind for the future.